Pieter De Cremer is a long-time security enthusiast. He joined Secure Code Warrior as part of an internship in 2015. During his master he continued to work at this company and wrote more than 100 rules for Sensei, their IDE security plugin. During this time he was closely involved in the early designs of this tool.  After graduating with a Master in Computer Science Engineering at UGent in 2017, he decided to pursue a Ph.D, backed by a personal Baekeland mandaat from VLAIO. Over the next four years, he built his vision of collaboration between developers and the security team. He designed, implemented, and evaluated innovative improvements for both the training and tools provided by SCW. During this time, he published three papers and built a portfolio of three patents related to his work.
After graduating, Pieter joined r2c and is now contributing to their fast open-source static analysis tool Semgrep.

In his spare time, Pieter enjoys hitting the security conference circuit to engage with other enthusiasts around the world, his afternoon coffee ritual, and a few rounds of Back4Blood.