Matias Madou

Matias is the co-founder and CTO of Secure Code Warrior. SCW provides a fully hands-on gamified experience with metrics, leaderboards and badging that enables developers to master secure coding in different development languages and frameworks. Our customers are able track their skills and progress, and benchmark different teams, including assessing potential suppliers and new recruits. SCW is truly the first global platform developers want to learn on and allows you to ensure a minimum baseline of security skills in your organization.

Matias has over a decade of hands-on software security experience. From the research to improve existing solutions to scoping and building new solutions. A dozen patents and a bunch of papers are the result of his research that eventually led to a hand full of commercial products.

Matias holds a Ph.D. in computer engineering from Ghent University, where he studied application security through program obfuscation to hide the inner workings of an application. With his Ph.D. in application security, he joined Fortify as an intern and moved up to being the research architect of all runtime solutions within crossing Fortify and ArcSight within HP. He presented at conferences including RSA Conference, BlackHat and DefCon.