Brian Demers

Biography

Brian Demers is a PMC member for the Apache Shiro project. Brian spends much of his day contributing to Shiro in the form of writing code, tutorials, blogs, and answering questions. He first started working with Shiro (then JSecurity) while working on Sonatype’s Nexus. Along with typical software development Brian also has a passion for fast builds an automation.

Generate code that doesn't suck
We all hate generated code, sometimes the need for it outweighs the pains. I’ll discuss some of the common pitfalls of why we hate it and how to avoid those issues. This talk takes a look at how you can generate code using a Swagger/OpenAPI spec that looks like something you would want to use.
Simple Java Security with Apache Shiro
This talk will provide a basic overview of how to secure an application using Apache Shiro and discuss the more common touch points such as: configuration, protecting paths/routes in web applications, and integrating with a custom authentication source.