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David Shepard is a Software Developer in the SEI’s Software Solutions Division. David has made a career working in many different areas of the information technology field. He has spent time building networks, administering servers, designing software, writing and debugging software, working on process improvement initiatives, auditing application security, implementing big data and machine learning systems, assisting digital forensic investigations and researching and implementing DevSecOps solutions. He has worked in corporate, education, and government sectors for large institutions, mid-sized companies, and start-ups, on projects ranging in size from the tens of thousands to the tens of millions of dollars in budget. In his ten years with the SEI, he has spent significant effort working on research, but is an engineer at heart.

Aaron Volkmann is a DevSecOps team lead at the Software Engineering Institute focused on modernizing US Department of Defense software acquisition in the space arena. His research interests include malware distribution networks, advancing application security and automating human tasks aided by machine learning / AI algorithms. He has an extensive software development background having built and sustained software systems ranging from real time systems to data warehouses for numerous organizations in the government, as well as healthcare, retail, software, and manufacturing industries. He holds a M.S. in Computer Information Systems from Boston University.