Laura Main
DevNetwork Advisory Board - Enterprise Advisory Board at Onwardly
Whangārei, Northland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolLaura Main is a security-focused technology founder and operator with over a decade of hands-on experience spanning software development at CERN, government counter-terrorism operations, enterprise advisory at KPMG, and building SafeStack into a global secure development platform. As CEO and co-founder she raised seed funding, scaled the product to 1,500+ organisations across 80+ countries, and now combines strategic leadership with hands-on AppSec practice as a Virtual CISO and Senior Director of Risk Detection. She bridges board-level strategy and developer-facing delivery, believing that culture and decision-making drive lasting security outcomes more than tools alone. An author and industry speaker (co-authoring two O’Reilly books and presenting at BlackHat USA), she also invests and advises startups and contributes to industry forums to shape broader practices. Based in Whangārei, New Zealand, she’s open to senior leadership roles globally and brings a rare mix of technical pedigree, operational grit, and product-led growth experience.
12 years of coding experience
BSc (Hons), Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, BSc (Hons), Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at Prifysgol Aberystwyth University
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Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (5)
scanner9
ava8
vulnerability-scanners7
security7
vulnerability7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ladynerd/marvelous-org
May 2014 - Nov 2022
Contributions:9 commits, 5 pushes in 8 years 7 months
open-security-nz/sage
Aug 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:22 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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