Melissa, but you can call me Mel.

I am a regional Inside Sales Account Manager at GitHub (the place to be, if you ask me) looking after APAC/ANZ customers.

A Taurus 🌞, into tarot - and taro. Taro and matcha 🍵 are my go-to bevvies. Am also obsessed with 🍣 and would have it every day if I could. Some of my interests/skills include:

Be sure to check out these resources! Whether you're looking to streamline your development workflows, improve your AppSec practices, or are interested to dive into into some cool features and exciting news - I got you covered.

DevSecOps is the mindset shift to recognize and continuously apply security practices as part of the development lifecycle, with responsibilities shared across teams. This is frequently accompanied by shifting security testing left to earlier in the lifecycle as part of development. This keeps security—and developers—in the flow and in context, allowing security issues to be addressed earlier. And, by using Git as a source of truth for your environment, you can more easily apply these principles not only to your code, but also to everything around your code, like your configurations. By empowering all developers to take responsibility for security, performing security testing earlier in your development lifecycle, and using Git, you can help your development teams find and remediate security issues faster.

Code scanning puts the developer experience first at every step. The static analysis engine at its core, CodeQL, is fast and powerful—capable of finding real security issues without the noise. The queries it runs are precise, configurable, and are constantly being improved by the open source community. Results are displayed in in-line pull request comments, with detailed descriptions and remediation advice. All configuration happens as code in a GitHub Actions workflow file.

Powered by OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot is an AI pair programmer that helps you write code faster and with less work. GitHub Copilot draws context from comments and code, and suggests individual lines and whole functions instantly.

Frameworks and languages supported: Does specially well for Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Java, and Go, but it understands dozens of languages and can help you find your way around almost anything.

Available as an extension for Neovim, JetBrains, and Visual Studio Code - you can use the GitHub Copilot extension on your desktop or in the cloud on GitHub Codespaces.

GitHub now has built-in support for CITATION.cff files. This new feature enables academics and researchers to let people know how to correctly cite their work, especially in academic publications/materials. Originally proposed by the research software engineering community, CITATION.cff files are plain text files with human- and machine-readable citation information. When we detect a CITATION.cff file in a repository, we use this information to create convenient APA or BibTeX style citation links that can be referenced by others. I don't know where this was when I was back in uni.

Want to see your GitHub contribution graph as a city skyline? Simply enter your GitHub @ handle and you've got yourself your very own 3D skyline based on all your commits for any chosen year. You can also print it - yes, print it. For those with a 3D printer, we have a .stl file for you to download. Make yours here!

Game Off is an annual game jam, where participants spend the month of November creating games based on a secret theme. Participate individually, or as a team. Use whatever game engines, libraries, and languages you like. The theme for this year's Game Off that has JUST been announced is.. BUG! Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to create a game between now and December 1, incorporating the theme - in any way you like. Voting will open shortly after the jam ends and is open to everyone who’s submitted a game. Entries will be rated on the following categories: Overall, Gameplay, Graphics, Audio, Innovation and Theme Interpretation. Voting ends on Jan 1st at 13:37 PT.

Check out Game Off 2022 for more info.

I'd love to have you again.