Tanya Janca

CEO

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada20 yrs 6 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Best-selling author of secure coding books.
Award-winning expert in application security.
Founder of multiple security training initiatives.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS security expert specializing in secure coding and application security training.

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Skills

Core Skills

Application SecuritySecure CodingDevsecops

Other Skills

.Net COREAPI SecurityAPI Security trainingAngularBilingual English-FrenchC# & .Net FrameworkC/C++ExpressFlaskHTML/CSSIotJavaJavascriptLeadershipMobile

About

Tanya Janca, aka SheHacksPurple, is the best-selling author of 'Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding’ and 'Alice and Bob Learn Application Security’. She is currently the CEO and secure coding trainer at She Hacks Purple Consulting. Over her 28-year IT career she has won countless awards (including OWASP Lifetime Distinguished Member and Hacker of the Year), spoken all over the planet, and is a prolific blogger. Tanya has trained thousands of software developers and IT security professionals, via her online academies (We Hack Purple and Semgrep Academy), and her live training programs. Having performed counter-terrorism, led security for the 52nd Canadian general election, developed or secured countless applications, Tanya Janca is widely considered an international authority on the security of software. Advisor: Smithy, Katilyst Board Member: Forte Group Faculty: IANs Research Founder: We Hack Purple, OWASP DevSlop, #CyberMentoringMonday, WoSEC

Experience

Smithy

Advisory Board Member

Jul 2025 – Present · 8 mos

Katilyst

Advisory Board Member

May 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Virtual · Remote

Startup Advisory position with an amazing Security Champions startup and consulting service!

security championsapplication security trainingsecure coding trainingAPI Security trainingApplication SecuritySecure Coding

Semgrep

Staff DevRel at Semgrep

Jul 2023 – Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Remote

I speak at conferences and community events, create content, such as courses for Semgrep Academy, and contribute to the community on behalf of Semgrep.

Application Security

Aiya corp

Advisory Board Member

Oct 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

Threat modelling for every dev!

Application Security

She hacks purple consulting inc.

Secure Coding Trainer

May 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 10 mos · Victoria, British Columbia, Canada · Remote

Specializing in live, virtual security training for software developers and security professionals, Tanya Janca injects a captivating blend of expertise and humour into her secure coding education. Her newly updated and expanded training, inspired by the content from her new book "Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding," covers a wide array of topics including how to secure web apps, APIs, mobile, serverless, and an extensive list of programming languages and frameworks (list below).
With a keen focus on learnings that help students do their jobs more securely (rather than 'hacking', exploits, or other trendy topics), Tanya's sessions integrate in-depth lectures, lively discussions, and extensive code reviews to analyze the spectrum of "bad, better, and great code." Some classes include hands-on time with various security tools, depending on the needs of the organization.
As a former professional entertainer, Tanya brings an element of fun and humour to her classes, ensuring that learning is engaging and enjoyable. Tanya's training is designed to ensure long-term knowledge retention via several well-known learning strategies, which include micro breaks, recall exercises, cheat sheets, quizzes, and special opportunities to apply recently learned concepts, to guarantee practical knowledge retention, regardless of the timeframe.
Unlock a realm of dynamic and effective secure coding training with She Hacks Purple Consulting – where learning is far from standard and definitely not boring!
Deep dives available into the following topics:
· API Security
· Javascript
· HTML/CSS
· Python
· SQL
· Node.js Framework
· Java
· TypeScript
· C# & .Net Framework
· PHP
· C/C++
· Express
· React.js
· Angular
· Vue.js
· .Net CORE
· Spring Boot
· Flask
· Mobile (both IOS and Android)
· Serverless
· Iot
· Web Sockets

application security trainingsecure coding trainingApplication SecuritySecure CodingDevSecOps

We hack purple academy

Founder & CEO

Feb 2020 – Feb 2024 · 4 yrs · Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

We Hack Purple was a learning platform dedicated to teaching Application Security, DevSecOps, and Cloud Security.
Acquired by Semgrep.

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Cloud defense

Advisory Board Member

Jan 2020 – Jul 2023 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Application Security

Ians

Faculty Member

Oct 2019 – Nov 2025 · 6 yrs 1 mo · West Coast, Canada

Security sidekick

Chief Executive Officer

Oct 2019 – Dec 2019 · 2 mos · Canada, West Coast

A short-lived product startup aimed at solving the software inventory problem.

Microsoft

Senior Cloud Advocate, Specializing in Application Security

Feb 2018 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos · Ottawa, Canada Area

Evangelizing software security
Advocating for developers
Contributing to the open source community
Security research
Working hard to ensure the easiest way to do something is also the most secure way.