Kate Pearce
Head Of Security at Trade Me
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolKate Pearce is a security leader with 11+ years of hands-on and strategic experience, currently serving as Head of Security at Trade Me and as an InternetNZ Councillor. She blends deep technical skills—application and network penetration testing, secure SDLC, and network design—with a service-design mindset to deliver repeatable, risk-aligned security that fits organisational culture. Kate has led threat assessment and security product innovation work across the Asia-Pacific at Cisco, building data-driven proofs of concept and operationalising security services for diverse platforms including OT and connected cars. A seasoned communicator and researcher, she’s presented at BlackHat USA, Source Boston and multiple BSides events on topics from deception tech to biologically inspired risk management. She combines academic rigor (MSc with distinction) with practical consulting experience, and brings an unusual focus on enabling agile organisations to both mitigate threats and seize opportunities.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MSc (with Distinction) Computer Science, MSc (with Distinction) Computer Science at University of CanterburyGithub contributions (3)
bsideswlg/bsideswlg.github.io
Jun 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:52 commits, 16 pushes in 4 months
bsideswlg/bsideswlg-hugo-website
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 day
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