Ms. Meera Rao works as a Senior Principal Consultant and the Director of DevSecOps Practice at Synopsys, Inc who has over 20 years of experience in software development organizations in a variety of roles including Architect, Lead Developer, and Project Manager, and Security Architect. Meera has overseen and performed secure code reviews, static analysis implementations, architectural risk analysis, secure design reviews and threat modeling of systems built from a few thousand lines of code to systems containing tens of millions of lines of code (Java, JEE, .Net, Rails, Grails, and C/C++). Ms. Meera has been working as a trusted adviser to Fortune 500 companies helping them achieve realistic goals for Practical CI/CD & DevSecOps. She advises organizations in defining, implementing, maturing, scaling and measuring DevSecOps. Meera was awarded the SecDevOps Trailblazer award from SecuritySerious in London. Ms. Meera is very passionate about getting more women working in the technology industry. Ms. Meera participates, presents and speaks at several conferences, spreading her knowledge of security, DevSecOps and the importance of women in the technology workforce.