I’m thrilled to announce the winners of the April Secure Coding Challenge which concluded last Friday! With the new role-based leaderboards that debuted in the April competition, we get to celebrate the top secure coders among us on the development and DevOps teams.

🎉 🎉 Join me in congratulating the winners 🎉 🎉  

Developers    

🏆 Secure Code MVP - First place leaderboard winner   

@joeljons (Community Member)​  , who will receive: 

• A Razer BlackShark V2 Gaming Headset   
• 100 Community reputation points   
• Secure Coder Badge for OWASP A6  

🌠 Secure Code Rising Star - Top 5 leaderboard winners (excluding MVP)   

@freefiona85 (Community Member)​  @AlexeyAnufriev (Community Member)​  @TMessing824579 (Community Member)​  @MDuffy204417 (Community Member)​  @snieguu (Community Member)​, each will receive: 

• A pair of Secure Coder socks  
• 50 Community reputation points   
• Secure Coder Badge for OWASP A6  

Here’s the completion time of the top six users on the developer leaderboard:  

DevOps/Security Engineers  

🏆 Secure Code MVP - First place leaderboard winner   

@C-Rod (Community Member)​ , who will receive  

• A Razer BlackShark V2 Gaming Headset   
• 100 Community reputation points   
• Secure Coder Badge for OWASP A6  

🌠  Secure Code Rising Star: Top 5 leaderboard (excluding MVP)   

@jayala (Community Member)​  @ScottyGoSW (Community Member)​  @CWarren710282 (Community Member)​ @jason.curtis (Community Member)​ @en0ne (Partner)​ , each will receive: 

• A pair of Secure Coder socks  
• 50 Community reputation points   
• Secure Coder Badge for OWASP A6  

Here’s the completion time of the top six users on the DevOps/Security engineer leaderboard:  

Congratulations again to all the winners -- great achievements 👏 I will be in touch with you over the next few days with information on how to redeem your prizes.   

🔜 The May Challenge will be announced next week. Stay tuned!