Pas Apicella
Field CTO APJ at Snyk
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolPas Apicella is a Field CTO for APJ at Snyk with 11 years of experience helping organisations adopt secure, cloud-native development practices and DevSecOps at scale. He builds executive-level technical relationships, shapes product roadmaps from customer advocacy, and repeatedly translates complex application and cloud security trends into engaging conference talks and workshops. His background spans platform and middleware roles at Elastic, VMware Tanzu, IBM and Oracle, giving him deep expertise in observability, cloud platforms, and developer tooling. Pas is especially skilled at operationalising security by empowering developers as the first line of defence and mentoring field engineers across technical and go-to-market disciplines. Based in Melbourne, he combines hands-on technical credibility with a public-facing evangelist role that influences both customers and product direction. An early career in Java middleware and QA gives him a pragmatic appreciation for developer workflows that informs his strategic view on developer security.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
St Monica's College Epping - OfficialBA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at RMIT University
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Github Skills (21)
vulnerabilities10
nodejs10
mysql9
snyk8
wait6
apache-camel6
websphere-liberty6
application-security6
application-framework6
ibm-cloud6
csharp5
blazor-webassembly5
methodology5
modular5
blazor4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
papicella/postfacto
Sep 2021 - Apr 2026
Self-hosted retro tool aimed at helping remote teams
Contributions:195 PRs, 220 pushes, 216 branches in 4 years 6 months
hosteddockerretro
papicella/snyk-open-source-workshop
Jul 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:20 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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