Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Engineers are on the front lines of secure software, but many teams struggle to find the time, budget, or buy-in to upskill them on secure coding and DevSecOps. In this talk, two engineering leaders share how they tackled security education in very different environments: one in a large enterprise, the other in smaller, resource-constrained companies moving fast.
You’ll hear how they:
- Selected or built security training programs that fit their teams’ needs
- Integrated learning into team rituals and engineering culture
- Balanced delivery speed with ongoing security development
- Got buy-in from engineers and leadership at different org scales
- Leveraged standardization to efficiently scale their programs
Whether you're starting from scratch or scaling an existing effort, you’ll leave with practical strategies you can adapt to your team’s size, constraints, and security maturity.
Boomie Odumade
TechBees LLC
Senior Engineering Leader | Platform & Team Builder | Security-Aware Culture Advocate | Career Coach | DC CTO Club Board
techbees.me
Boomie Odumade is a senior software engineering leader with over 20 years of experience building platforms, scaling teams, and delivering enterprise-grade systems under high-stakes conditions. She has led engineering efforts at organizations including Accenture, NPR, Capital One, and several fast-growing tech companies — helping teams integrate security, reliability, and velocity into their development practices.
Boomie brings a practical, energetic perspective to topics like secure delivery culture, tech debt remediation, and team enablement. Her leadership has supported engineering organizations in becoming more security-aware while continuing to deliver at pace.
She is also an active speaker, career coach, and board member of the DC CTO Club, with a long-standing commitment to mentoring and developing the next generation of technical leaders.
linkedin.com/in/odumade
Anthony Nduka Okocha
Capital One
Educator | Learner | Software Architect | Cloud Enthusiast
A Husband, A Dad, A Software Engineer @ Capital One, A Story Teller, and A Foodie all walked into a bar…
Managed by the OWASP® Foundation
owasp.org
Engineers are on the front lines of secure software, but many teams struggle to find the time, budget, or buy-in to upskill them on secure coding and DevSecOps. In this talk, two engineering leaders share how they tackled security education in very different environments: one in a large enterprise, the other in smaller, resource-constrained companies moving fast.
You’ll hear how they:
- Selected or built security training programs that fit their teams’ needs
- Integrated learning into team rituals and engineering culture
- Balanced delivery speed with ongoing security development
- Got buy-in from engineers and leadership at different org scales
- Leveraged standardization to efficiently scale their programs
Whether you're starting from scratch or scaling an existing effort, you’ll leave with practical strategies you can adapt to your team’s size, constraints, and security maturity.
Boomie Odumade
TechBees LLC
Senior Engineering Leader | Platform & Team Builder | Security-Aware Culture Advocate | Career Coach | DC CTO Club Board
techbees.me
Boomie Odumade is a senior software engineering leader with over 20 years of experience building platforms, scaling teams, and delivering enterprise-grade systems under high-stakes conditions. She has led engineering efforts at organizations including Accenture, NPR, Capital One, and several fast-growing tech companies — helping teams integrate security, reliability, and velocity into their development practices.
Boomie brings a practical, energetic perspective to topics like secure delivery culture, tech debt remediation, and team enablement. Her leadership has supported engineering organizations in becoming more security-aware while continuing to deliver at pace.
She is also an active speaker, career coach, and board member of the DC CTO Club, with a long-standing commitment to mentoring and developing the next generation of technical leaders.
linkedin.com/in/odumade
Anthony Nduka Okocha
Capital One
Educator | Learner | Software Architect | Cloud Enthusiast
A Husband, A Dad, A Software Engineer @ Capital One, A Story Teller, and A Foodie all walked into a bar…
Managed by the OWASP® Foundation
owasp.org
