Alex Rothacker is the Director of Security Research for Application Security, Inc.’s (AppSec) TeamSHATTER. In his role, Alex manages a team comprised of some of the world’s most renowned databases security researchers. TeamSHATTER is regularly credited for identifying critical database vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in leading database management systems. As an evangelist for database security, he is a regular speaker at security conferences and contributor to various security blogs. Before joining AppSec, Alex was a Director of Solutions at Visionics, a facial recognition software start-up. In addition, Alex has held various senior-level positions in the software industry. Alex holds an M.S. in Computer Science from New Jersey Institute of Technology and Diplom Informatiker(FH) from Fachhochschule Darmstadt (Germany).