James Brotsos

Product Manager, Developer Experience, Checkmarx

James Brotsos serves as a Product Manager, Developer Experience at Checkmarx. With over 15 years of software development experience, James has previously held roles at large organizations including NASA, where he wrote source code for the real-time operating system that powers the Mars Curiosity Rover.

James has a particular passion for architecting automated solutions that are effective in driving security measures for DevOps organizations, helping them achieve their DevSecOps goals. In his spare time, he volunteers mentoring computer science high school students in San Francisco, running the Checkmarx User Group, and participating in hackathons.

How to (Tackle, Address, Mitigate, Manage, etc.) Your Open Source Risks

Presented by James Brotsos • December 17, 2020

Today's modern applications are made up of a significant percentage of open source libraries, components, and packages. As a result, organizations must recognize, accept, and oversee how and where open source is used in the products and services delivered to their customer base. Although organizations acknowledge a...

Shifting Left with SCMs: Navigating DevSecOps' New Frontier

Presented by James Brotsos • November 6, 2020

DevSecOps applies application security testing during the CI stage to put "Sec" into DevOps, so to speak. Security tools must provide meaningful, actionable results in return. In this presentation, I'll explain why development teams are increasingly turning to source code management (SCM) platforms to achieve their...