Hasan Yasar is the Technical Director of Continuous Deployment of Capability group in the Software Solutions Division (SSD) of the Software Engineering Institute, CMU. Hasan leads an engineering group to enable, accelerate and assure transformation at the speed of relevance by leveraging DevSecOps, Agile, Lean AI/ML, and other emerging technologies to create a Smart Software Platform/Pipeline. Hasan has more than 25 years’ experience as a senior security engineer, software engineer, software architect, and manager in all phases of secure software development and information modeling processes. He has specialized in secure software solutions design and development experience in the cybersecurity domain including data-driven investigation and collaborative incident management, network security assessment, automated, large-scale malware triage/analysis, medical records management, accounting, simulation systems, and document management. He is also an adjunct faculty member in the CMU Heinz College and Institute of Software Research where he currently teaches “Software and Security” and “DevOps: Engineering for Deployment and Operations.”
His current areas of research and professional interest focus on:
- Secure software development including threat modeling, risk management framework, and software assurance models
- Secure DevOps process, methodologies, and implementation
- Software development methodologies (Agile, SAFe, DevOps)
- Cloud-based application development, AI system development deployment, and operations
- Software architecture, design, development, and management of large-scale enterprise systems
