The kind of phishing that developers likely click

Speaker Bio

Tomasz Szmidt is the CTO and co-founder of u11d. He specializes in combining infrastructure, data, and AI into cohesive systems that support decision-making and business growth.

LinkedIn: Tomasz Szmidt

He works with companies to build reliable infrastructure, develop efficient data pipelines, and implement modern DevOps and data engineering practices. His experience includes cloud-native architectures, Infrastructure as Code, data orchestration, and integrating machine learning into production systems.

As a hands-on technical leader, he focuses on simplifying complex architectures and turning them into stable, scalable, and cost-efficient platforms. He combines strategic technology leadership with practical execution, ensuring systems perform reliably under real-world conditions.

He regularly shares insights on infrastructure, data, and system scalability through technical blogs, including the u11d tech blog and DEV Community.

Talk Abstract

By design, phishing makes you turn off thinking and act mindlessly. Software developers won't fall into Nigerian Prince charming, won't transfer sums of money just because 'the CEO asked them to'. They will be social engineered by techniques that appeal to their career paths, ways of working or IT community values. Hackers exploit what we trust, like or crave for at work. In this presentation we will go through real world notorious campaigns that target developers, learn who are the attackers and what they go after.

When: April 24, 2026, 12:00 - 12:45 Language: English