Pas Apicella
Field CTO APJ at Snyk
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolPas Apicella is a Field CTO for APJ at Snyk with 11 years of experience helping organisations adopt secure, cloud-native development practices and DevSecOps at scale. He builds executive-level technical relationships, shapes product roadmaps from customer advocacy, and repeatedly translates complex application and cloud security trends into engaging conference talks and workshops. His background spans platform and middleware roles at Elastic, VMware Tanzu, IBM and Oracle, giving him deep expertise in observability, cloud platforms, and developer tooling. Pas is especially skilled at operationalising security by empowering developers as the first line of defence and mentoring field engineers across technical and go-to-market disciplines. Based in Melbourne, he combines hands-on technical credibility with a public-facing evangelist role that influences both customers and product direction. An early career in Java middleware and QA gives him a pragmatic appreciation for developer workflows that informs his strategic view on developer security.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
St Monica's College Epping - OfficialBA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at RMIT University
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Github Skills (22)
pivotal10
vulnerabilities10
nodejs10
sql-database9
administration8
mysql8
apache-camel6
websphere-liberty6
ibm-cloud6
web-application4
csharp4
methodology4
blazor-webassembly4
dotnet3
blazor3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
papicella/apples-snyk-all
Jul 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:95 PRs, 190 pushes, 175 branches in 3 years 8 months
papicella/goof
Apr 2021 - Mar 2025
Super vulnerable todo list application
Contributions:178 PRs, 256 pushes, 240 branches in 4 years
vulnerablenodejstodo-listtodo
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