Tribe of Hackers

30Teuta Hyseni

“To develop a successful application for today’s ecosystem, security must be every member’s responsibility—from managers and engineers to QA—throughout every stage of the software lifecycle.”

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Teuta Hyseni is a security engineer at Microsoft. As a security engineer, she is responsible for leading application security projects, assessing potential flaws within applications, and reviewing the architecture of applications. Teuta started her career as a software engineer at Rackspace. After that, she moved to Denim Group, where she began working on the cybersecurity side and became fascinated with it. Teuta is committed to educating others outside of the industry on security threats and best practice, maximizing the impact of her security expertise through different talks and mentorship programs. In recognition of her efforts, she was nominated as a Security Champion of the Year in 2018 at the Women in IT Awards. As part of her passion for the tech industry and innovation, Teuta and her mentees won first place in the World Blockchain Hackathon at the Blockchain Economic Forum in 2018, a world-class competition. As an advocate for gender diversity, she also has a keen interest in motivating, inspiring, and improving women’s participation in the industry.

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