https://wiki.owasp.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Gary_Robinson_2018_Bio_and_Why_meGary Robinson 2018 Bio and Why me - Revision history2026-04-08T20:14:45ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.27.2https://wiki.owasp.org/index.php?title=Gary_Robinson_2018_Bio_and_Why_me&diff=243461&oldid=prevGary David Robinson: /* Bio */2018-09-16T08:15:15Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Bio</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Personally </del>I <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">have spent </del>years <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">working on </del>software and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">cyber, including time </del>as a Senior Application Security Architect <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">within </del>one of the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">worlds </del>largest <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">financial institutions</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">As a professional, </ins>I<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'d worked for over 15 </ins>years <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">as a </ins>software <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">developer, pushing security as a discipline </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wrapping it into the SDLC.  More recently I've acted </ins>as a Senior Application Security Architect <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">at CitiGroup, been a web application penetration tester, and consultant to a number of companies.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I joined OWASP in 2011 to work on the OWASP Code Review Guide v2, and ever since then I've been impressed by the people and passion in the OWASP community.  Some of the highlights of my time in OWASP include:</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Essentially - I understand the many aspects of what makes OWASP (chapters, projects, conferences) having been heavily involved with these in the past, and going forward I want to represent and enable some potential changes, or research, for OWASP to enable it to function better going forward.  I think it's important to have been involved in all of these OWASP aspects, as it can allow you to know how they feed into each other, how they enable each other, and spot some opportunities for improvement.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"># Finances: We have had a few issues over the past few years, which have been very well debated over the leaders list.  These include the Israel/London AppSec conference, the nature of OWASP member/free tickets to these conferences, and the nature of existing funds in chapter accounts. IMO all of these have come down to OWASP finances, and the potential lack of such finances which causes such issues.  I'd like to look at ways OWASP can increase it's finances outside of these areas, such as government funding (worldwide), extra corporate funding (without selling our soul), the nature of the OWASP membership, and other areas.  I know work has already been partially done in these areas, and if we manage to increase the funding to OWASP, we can better enable the community, and OWASP employees, to deliver the OWASP mission.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"># Quality: Project review committees have been attempted in the past, and other aspects of OWASP quality have been talked about, hence I'd like to see if there are ways to do this better in the future.  Perhaps not with volunteers, but with paid employees if we had extra finance or sponsorship (see 1) above).  Having worked on the code review guide, and spent a portion of our funds on review/quality, I know how hard this is to do, and for an industry respected document to have typos and other issues, unfortunately reflects on OWASP as an organization.</ins></div></td></tr>
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</table>Gary David Robinsonhttps://wiki.owasp.org/index.php?title=Gary_Robinson_2018_Bio_and_Why_me&diff=243355&oldid=prevMtesauro: Added bio from Gary's call for nominations submission2018-09-13T06:58:00Z<p>Added bio from Gary's call for nominations submission</p>
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