Gerald Benischke

Gerald Benischke is a Software Engineering Consultant. With over 25 years of engineering experience in the public, financial, and telecom sectors, he has worked with companies like Ooredoo FinTech, Equal Experts, HMRC, MoneySuperMarket, Barclays, MBNA, and others. He describes himself as both an Agile Fundamentalist and an AppSec Snooper.

As an Agile Fundamentalist, Gerald believes that the principles of the Agile Manifesto form the foundation of good practices in software development. This perspective is about common sense, taking small steps, learning along the way, avoiding code that nobody wants or needs, and maintaining a skeptical view of rigid processes and procedures.

As an AppSec Snooper, Gerald aims to make security more approachable and pragmatic, essentially making it more agile. He thinks the best way to handle the influx of supply chain vulnerabilities and poor practices from sources like StackOverflow or LLM hallucinations is to bring security and development together—a concept often referred to as "shift left." Beyond Agile and AppSec, he is interested in people, middle-tier services, databases, security automation, and functional programming.