Software Supply Chains

Marcela Melara, a research scientist in the security and Privacy Research Group at Intel Labs, and Bruno Domingues, a chief technology officer in the financial services industry practice and a SLSA project contributor share their deep knowledge about software supply chain Security, a subject on everyone's minds today. Guests: Dr. Marcela Melara is a research scientist in the Security and Privacy Group at Intel Labs. Her current work focuses on developing solutions for high-integrity software supply chains and building trustworthy distributed systems. She has several publications and patents filed related to her research, and leads a number of internal, academic and open-source efforts on software supply chain security. Prior to joining Intel, she received her PhD in Computer Science from Princeton University and did her undergraduate studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She is a Siebel Scholar, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and her research on CONIKS was awarded the Caspar Bowden PET Award. Outside of work, Marcela is an avid gardener, bookworm, hiker, and gamer. Bruno Domingues is a Chief Technology Officer in Financial Services Industry practice (SMG), where he is responsible for technical direction and pathfinding across Intel’s product portfolio. He serves as the champion for Digital Transformation in the Financial Services domain. Before joining Intel in 2007, Bruno worked with Microsoft. He was a pioneer in the FSI vertical practice back in the ’90s and developed a rich ecosystem of partners around the Microsoft platform to solve the most challenging industry’s problems. With over 23 years of experience in applying technologies. Bruno developed a deep understanding of the financial industry mojo: Have worked with regulators to help banks ramp up on Basel II and III, architected mission-critical trading-desks operation, and inter-banking national-wide online payment system in different markets and regions in the World. In the last 15 years, Bruno has been focused on cloud adoption in the financial services industry, as it is a unique industry with unique requirements. Bruno also has served as IEEE Computer Society chairman (R9), Academic Liaison Director with CMG, and Board Advisor for Fintechs.