About Tech Debt Burndown Podcast

Chris and Nick chat with each other and guests about technical debt and what to do about it.

Hosts

Chris Swan

Chris Swan

Chris Swan is an Engineer at Atsign, building the Atsign Platform, an open source networking platform that is putting people in control of their data and removing the frictions and surveillance associated with today’s Internet.

He was previously a Fellow at DXC Technology where he held various CTO roles. Before that he held CTO and Director of R&D roles at Cohesive Networks, UBS, Capital SCF and Credit Suisse, where he worked on app servers, compute grids, security, mobile, cloud, networking and containers.

Chris is an InfoQ Editor writing about cloud, DevOps and security, and is a Dart Google Developer Expert (GDE). He’s a frequent speaking on supply chain security (SBOMs, SLSA and OpenSSF Scorecards), the Dart programming language and AI.

Nick Selby

Nick Selby

Nick Selby is the founder and Managing Partner of EPSD, with a career spanning technology leadership, not-for-profit leadership, law enforcement, and cybersecurity. He serves on the board of directors of the National Child Protection Task Force, and the advisory board of Sightline Security.

He has held key executive roles at Evertas, Trail of Bits, 451 Research (now S&P Global Intelligence), and Paxos Trust. He served as Director of Cyber Intelligence and Investigations at the NYPD, and as both paid and reserve Texas police detective specializing in investigations of child sexual abuse material and online investigations.

He is co-author of several books, including Cyber Attack Survival Manual, Blackhatonomics: An Inside Look at the Economics of Cybercrime, and In Context: Understanding Police Killings of Unarmed Civilians; he was technical editor of Investigating Internet Crimes: An Introduction to Solving Crimes in Cyberspace.