Champion

Steve Poole

Herodevs

Developer Advocate, Developer Security Champion, DevOps Lead. A thoroughly seasoned engineer, leader and strategist from operating systems to JVMs to Chat GPT. Open source committer and contributor, Apache, Eclipse, OpenJDK, OpenSSF, OWASP member, Mad Scientist and usergroup leader: A seasoned speaker and regular presenter at international conferences on technical and software engineering topics. Greybeards rule!

Badges 20

Talks 43

Devoxx UK 2026
Spring Documentary World Premiere at Devoxx UK
May 2026Development Practices
Devoxx France 2026
Engineering a Modern Java Platform
April 2026Java & Languages
Devoxx France 2026
Steel for Vulnerabilities, Silver for Zombies: Hunting Java's Unseen Monsters
April 2026Security & Privacy
Devoxx UK 2025
Unlocking the Full Power of AI Coding Tools: Practical advice for Developers
May 2025Development Practices▶ Watch
Devoxx UK 2025
The Enemy Within: How AI is Weaponizing Your Code
May 2025Security▶ Watch
Voxxed Days Thessaloniki 2024
Future-Proofing Java: The Art of Crafting Resilient APIs
October 2024Java
Devoxx Poland 2024
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of AI in Security
June 2024Security
Devoxx UK 2024
More tales from the Dark Side: How AI is the bad guys new friend
May 2024Security▶ Watch
Devoxx UK 2024
Tom Cruise and the Cyber(crime)men
May 2024Security
Devoxx Poland 2023
Three Things That Each Developer Should Know to Help Secure Your Code Base
May 2023Security
Devoxx Poland 2023
Hidden security features of the JVM - everything you didn’t know and more
May 2023Security
Voxxed Days lasi
A radiography of a SBOM vulnerability scanner
May 2023Security
Devoxx UK 2023
Hidden security features of the JVM - everything you didn’t know and more
May 2023Security
Devoxx UK 2023
A radiography of a SBOM vulnerability scanner
May 2023Security
Devoxx UK 2023
How to avoid the next Log4Shell - easy steps every developer can take right now
May 2023Security
Devoxx UK 2023
UnConference Kick Off
May 2023Mind the Geek
Voxxed Days Bucharest 2023
Peaceful Sleeping In the Age Of Shells: How Tooling Can Help You Protect Your Code Base
March 2023Development Practices
Devoxx Belgium 2022
Sleeping Peacefully In the Age Of Shells: How Picking the Right Technologies Is Harder Than You Think
October 2022Security
Devoxx Belgium 2022
A new hope for 2023? - what developers must learn next
October 2022People & Culture▶ Watch
Devoxx Poland 2022
Java JEP'dy - can you beat the experts and win a prize?
June 2022java
Devoxx Poland 2022
Superman or Ironman - can everyone be a 10x developer?
June 2022Development Practices
Devoxx UK 2022
Log4Shell : Armageddon or Opportunity?
May 2022Security
Devoxx UK 2022
Security lessons from Mother Nature
May 2022Security
Devoxx UK 2022
The secret life of Maven central
May 2022Build & Deploy
Devoxx UK 2022
JAVA JEP'DY
May 2022java
Voxxed Days Bucharest 2022
Mother Nature vs Java - the security face off
March 2022Architecture
Devoxx UK 2021
Java application security the hard way - a workshop for the serious developer (Cloud native style)
November 2021Security
Devoxx UK 2021
Java and Ransomware - what’s in it for you?
November 2021Security
Devoxx UK 2021
The Halloween TV - or why it might really be watching you back
November 2021Security
Devoxx Belgium 2019
Monty python meets the cloud of doom
November 2019Methodology & Culture
Devoxx UK 2019
How to get along with hateoas without letting the bad guys steal your lunch?
May 2019Server Side Java▶ Watch
Devoxx Belgium 2018
Are you deploying and operating with security in mind? cloud, containers and collateral damage
November 2018Cloud, Containers & Infrastructure
Devoxx Belgium 2018
Are you ready for cloud native java
November 2018Cloud, Containers & Infrastructure▶ Watch
Devoxx UK 2018
Java application security the hard way - a workshop for the serious developer
May 2018Security
Devoxx UK 2018
Are you ready for cloud-native java?
May 2018cloud▶ Watch
Devoxx UK 2018
Blind ignite
May 2018method_archi
Devoxx UK 2018
Beyond the pi - what’s next for the hacker in all of us?
May 2018geek
Devoxx France 2018
The anatomy of java vulnerabilities
April 2018archisec
Devoxx Belgium 2017
Opening up java ee: panel discussion
November 2017Server Side Java▶ Watch
Devoxx Belgium 2017
The anatomy of java vulnerabilities
November 2017Architecture & Security▶ Watch
Devoxx UK 2017
The Anatomy of Java Vulnerabilities
May 2017Methodology & Culture
Devoxx US 2017
Ten simple rules for writing great testcases
March 2017method_archi▶ Watch
Devoxx US 2017
The rise of the machine - is skynet closer than ever?
March 2017future