Sonya is a Staff Security Advocate and a lifelong traveler who has lived in the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. Always looking for new challenges, she made a career change from International Business Consultant in Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore to Full-Stack Software Engineer in South Korea to Cybersecurity in the United Kingdom.

Sonya is a DevSecOps/Cloud Security Advocate and a public speaker in the world tech scene. She is also a mentor for women in tech, a cybersecurity writer for FreeCodeCamp publications, 4x GitHub Stars, and an active member of the tech community in the UK.