SecuriTEA & Crumpets - Episode 15 - Neil Matatall

SecuriTEA & Crumpets is a series where security professionals come together to talk about their background, research, and interesting topics. The 15th episode welcomes Neil Matatall. Neil is a seasoned engineer and security professional and has worked in the industry over 16 years. Notably, Neil has worked at Twitter, and Github as an Individual Contributor, transitioning to a Senior manager position. Neil has been heavily involved in Static Analysis and contributed to the ruby on rails scanner Brakeman Security. Neil is the co-founder/organizer for the Locomocosec conference.

00:00 Intro
01:52 Hawaii
04:55 Locomocosec
09:14 Single track conferences
13:33 Tiktok Series (Content Security Policy)
17:30 Collaboration efforts for the Tiktok series?
19:39 Job History
22:10 Working at Twitter
24:37 Static analysis at Twitter
30:25 Developer first experience
31:30 Transitioning from Twitter to GitHub
34:25 Working at GitHub
41:18 How things evolved at GitHub
45:25 Not dictating change
46:52 Life lessons from working at Twitter/GitHub
48:20 Job Searching
52:30 Accommodating for Livecoding/takehome
55:52 Setting boundaries
58:20 Using what already exists
1:00:00 What's important to Neil
1:03:35 Worklife balance
1:09:20 Sustainable work culture





References:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ndm
Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@script_src_none
Conference: https://locomocosec.com/
Blog: https://matatall.com/jobs/2022/02/06/the-perfect-interview-for-me.html
Inspired by: https://twitter.com/engineering_bae
Inspired by: https://muan.co/2021/12/15/notes-on-looking-for-a-job/
Brakeman: https://brakemanscanner.org/
Justin' SecuriTEA episode on Brakeman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdAdW_oWtJY

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