Steve Taylor is an open-source visionary and industry leader in the areas of software build and release pipelines, open-source security, cloud-native architecture, and microservices. Steve’s career has been laser-focused on delivering secure and compliant build systems from compile to runtime deployments. Steve was the CTO of OpenMake Software and the creator of Meister, the first commercial build security automation system that is the heart of the DevOps process for over 400 enterprise development teams. Steve has built and implemented DevOps pipelines to support business agility in risk-averse industries including finance, government, and transportation. Steve is well-known in the open-source communities. He serves on the Technology Oversight Committee of the Continuous Delivery Foundation (Linux Foundation) and is the architect of the Ortelius open-source project. He is also a top contributor to the Pyrsia Open-Source project and serves on Stream-9 SBOMs Tools at the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF).