Tal Melamed

With more than 15 years' experience in Application and Serverless Security, Tal recently co-founded CloudEssence, a cloud-native Application Security company that was acquired by Contrast Security in 2020, where he now leads the new innovation center. Previously to CloudEssence, Tal headed the security research at Protego Labs, a Serverless security startup that was acquired by Check Point. Tal is committed to evangelising serverless and application security to the community by training hundreds of developers and security teams around the world, serving as an AWS Community builder, and teaching at the cybersecurity master's program at Quinnipiac University.