Tanya Janca
Secure Coding Trainer at She Hacks Purple Consulting Inc.
Greater Victoria Metropolitan Area Australia
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Top SchoolTanya Janca is a globally recognized application security educator and author known as SheHacksPurple, with a 28-year IT career and a reputation for making secure coding both rigorous and entertaining. As founder of We Hack Purple and creator of the AppSec Antics game, she has trained thousands of developers and security pros through live workshops, online academies, and corporate programs. Tanya blends hands-on code review, threat modeling, and practical retention techniques to help teams secure web apps, APIs, mobile, serverless, and a wide range of languages and frameworks. She has led security for high-stakes projects—including counter-terrorism work and the 52nd Canadian general election—and holds prestigious industry honors like OWASP Lifetime Distinguished Member. Currently leading education and community at Semgrep and advising multiple security startups, she pairs deep technical experience with a performer’s flair that makes complex security concepts memorable. Her background in both development and formal French certification hints at an analytical, communicative style that scales from classroom to policy-level engagements.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Algonquin CollegePassed Government Level French Exams with 'CBC', French as a second language, Passed Government Level French Exams with 'CBC', French as a second language at Alliance FrancaiseI passed my government exam with CBC., French as a second language, I passed my government exam with CBC., French as a second language at Académie de Formation Linguistique
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (59)
mongoose10
microsoft10
microsoft-azure10
mean-stack10
arm10
azure10
expressjs9
bicep9
dotnet9
security9
to-do9
dotnet-new9
csharp9
dotnet-core9
arm-templates9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
shehackspurple/dotnetcore-webapp
Feb 2020 - Nov 2021
dotnet new webapp
Contributions:3 PRs, 96 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
dotnetaspnetdotnet-newcsharpwebapp
shehackspurple/TTT-Pushing-Left
Jun 2019 - Jan 2022
This repository will teach you have to do my talk "Pushing Left, Like a Boss".
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
pushingto-dobossteach
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