Steve Giguere
Principal AI Security Advocate
London, England, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Giguere is a Principal AI Security Advocate with nine years focused on application and cloud-native security, now shaping product strategy and real-world defenses for AI-driven and agentic systems at Check Point. He blends hands-on engineering—contributing to notable open-source projects like Checkov—with developer advocacy and go-to-market leadership to translate emerging AI threats into practical platform controls. Steve trains and briefs engineers, executives, and communities through workshops and keynotes, turning complex LLM, RAG, and agent risks into actionable guidance. His background ranges from building cloud-native security practices at Palo Alto Networks and Aqua to founding roles and startup mentorship, giving him both product empathy and operational rigor. Based in London with Canadian roots, he pairs technical depth with media-friendly storytelling to bridge product, engineering, and customer needs. An under-the-radar strength: he’s repeatedly moved developer-focused security features from prototype into integrated workflows, improving secure-by-default practices across CI/CD and Kubernetes toolchains.
9 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Systems Engineering at Carleton University
Github Skills (12)
infrastructure-as-code10
kubernetes10
devops10
kubernetes-pods10
dockers9
cicd9
docker9
terraformer8
terraform8
python8
aws8
aws-cloudformation6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bridgecrewio/checkov
Jun 2021 - Nov 2022
Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:14 reviews, 60 commits, 18 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Steve's commits primarily focus on integrating and configuring Bridgecrew.cloud within the Checkov project. They added onboarding features related to the platform, including account creation and API key management. Furthermore, the user modified the `RunnerRegistry` and `main.py` files to incorporate the `bc_integration` parameter and integrate platform features. The user also made adjustments to the admission controller for Kubernetes, likely improving the security and integration capabilities of the project.
gcppolicy-as-codecomplianceaws-securityaws
eurogig/jankybank
Aug 2022 - Mar 2024
Simple Java Front and Back end with bad log4j version featuring CVE-2021-44228
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 3 PRs in 1 year 6 months
badlog4jcvejavaback-end
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