# Liran Tal recognitions and achievements from the community Awards, community appreciation, and personal and professional milestones for Liran Tal. Canonical: https://lirantal.com/recognitions ## 01 / Awards ![Liran Tal’s GitHub Stars award](/_astro/lirantal-github-stars-award.hPYU83Sc_1qn5Fn.jpg) ### GitHub Stars award GitHub Stars are a diverse set of individuals that inspire, educate, and influence those around them. They are nominated by GitHub as experts and technical leaders who passionately share their expertise with others. [About GitHub Stars ↗︎](https://stars.github.com/alumni) ![Liran Tal’s OpenJS Foundation Security award](/_astro/lirantal-openjs-foundation-security-award.DjLuab_H_ZU6gvy.jpg) ### OpenJS Foundation Pathfinder award for Security > “Liran is a tireless advocate for security in the JS ecosystem. He works hard to build bridges, educate developers about security issues, and support Open Source projects working to improve their security posture. Liran has served on the Node security team and is always available to support developers!” — The OpenJS Foundation [Read the OpenJS announcement ↗︎](https://openjsf.org/blog/openjs-world-2022-heres-what-you-missed) ![Liran Tal’s Schrodinger Open Source Day award](/_astro/lirantal-schrodinger-award.87N0WbOf_Z2erHIW.jpg) ### Schrodinger Open Source Day award Liran Tal delivered the opening keynote at the OpenSourceDay 2023 event in Italy and was honored to receive the Schrodinger Open Source Day award. [About Open Source Day ↗︎](https://osday.dev/) ## 02 / Appreciation & milestones Community appreciation and recognition, alongside personal and professional achievements. Roles reflect the original posts. Show categories Recognitions Awards Shoutouts 56 entries · Newest first * Recognitions Sep 25, 2023 > “Hey man! Your content on has helped me a ton 😊” SS Scott Spence Application Team Lead @XtendOps [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/spences10/status/1706334672253267997) * Recognitions Jan 20, 2023 > “Thank you so much. You are my inspiration 😌” MS Mohammad Shaad Shaikh Full Stack Web Developer [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/MohammadShaadsk/status/1616426111755513856) * Recognitions Jan 20, 2023 > “Thanks for your contribution. You make world a better place mate” M ManOrInfinity Engineer [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/manorinfinity/status/1616481086103769088) * Shoutouts Dec 26, 2022 > “היי לירן, יצא לי לצפות בהרצאה שהעברת לטכניון בנושא חבילות זדוניות ורק רציתי להגיד שההרצאה הייתה מרתקת וגם העברת אותה בצורה ממש ברורה (אם במקרה יש לך עוד הרצאות פומביות שהעברת או שתעביר, אשמח לשמוע על כך).” S Student A university student [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/liran_tal/status/1607406069818474499?s=20) * Shoutouts Dec 9, 2022 > “Open Source is awesome! I have been learning a lot about ESLint, ASTs, and security working on this PR: https://github.com/eslint-community/eslint-plugin-security/pull/95 - A huge thank you to @simonesanfradev for involving me in this, to @liran\_tal for inspiring this work, and to @slicknet for the awesome review session!” LM ![](/images/blog/loige.jpg) Luciano Mammino Senior Architect @fourTheorem [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/loige/status/1601229030304407553?s=20&t=I-eZF_7FlrA2Z361b7yK8w) * Recognitions Nov 22, 2022 > “This guy is the best!!! I hugged him tight! ❤️❤️❤️” NV Natalia Venditto Developer Experience at Microsoft [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/AnfibiaCreativa/status/1594397671141285888?s=20&t=bUwQuWPBgHZFNwgr9uQ51Q) * Shoutouts Nov 9, 2022 > “This morning I learned how to author an ESLint plugin! Pretty cool 😍 Thanks @simonesanfradev and @liran\_tal” LM ![](/images/blog/loige.jpg) Luciano Mammino Senior Architect @fourTheorem [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/loige/status/1590274196436680704?s=20&t=gOKy-VQ_fuo22oa5ii-o5w) * Recognitions Oct 27, 2022 > “Thanks to @liran\_tal, we're now running Node 18 Debian (slim) in prod & I measured the improvements vs Alpine w/ same workload: ✓ -16.3% CPU, ❌+8.6% RAM, ✓ -3.7% exec time, ✓ -14.5% start latency, ✓ -17.6% billable time (& thus $ saved), 5 lines of config changed. Anyone know why?” NC Neil Craig Lead Technical Architect at @BBC. [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/tdp_org/status/1585670958785957888?s=20&t=S3d-COKIhE7wpjBIUz20Nw) * Recognitions Oct 21, 2022 > “This re-prompted me to test Debian (Bullseye + Node 18.11 vs Alpine) images on Cloud Run. I ran a quick experiment for a couple of hours. Debian is ~: 30% lower CPU, 30% lower startup latency, 30% lower billable time ($), ~10% more RAM Thanks so much, as always, @liran\_tal!” NC Neil Craig Lead Technical Architect at @BBC. [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/tdp_org/status/1583506382300454920?s=20&t=S3d-COKIhE7wpjBIUz20Nw) * Recognitions Oct 21, 2022 > “All @nordicjs talks are finally online, thanks a lot! here are my favs: ES2025 news, Interviews for developers, hacking react apps by @liran\_tal, Leveraging types to make UI by @bloodyowl, security risks in your node\_modules by @feross, web perf boost by @vitalyf” GS George Sifalda Early startups dev advisor [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/JSifalda/status/1583531665413918720) * Shoutouts Oct 17, 2022 > “This should be a standard for any back-end-to-front-end integration! Thank you @liran\_tal!” GM Gabriel Mangiurea Software Engineer at Vercel [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/gbrlmngr/status/1581955776360632320?s=20&t=Ks8JR5uZBO77ELJMzehHEQ) * Recognitions Oct 14, 2022 > “I really love the cheat sheets you made on this. I can't do anything with #NodeJS and #Docker without considering your suggestions/insights” MS Manuel S. Martone Senior Engineering Manager @TrustLayerIO [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/codebrainr/status/1580689908607242240?s=20&t=Ks8JR5uZBO77ELJMzehHEQ) * Recognitions Oct 14, 2022 > “path traversal - may the path be with you, @liran\_tal warning about dangers in vscode extensions dotdotpwn'ing /etc/hosts @ #NodeConfEU r%2d%u” DH Duncan Healy Software Engineer [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/organicdelight/status/1577222734459080705?s=20&t=Ks8JR5uZBO77ELJMzehHEQ) * Shoutouts Oct 14, 2022 > “https://github.com/lirantal/lockfile-lint is a great tool to help reduce that risk” S Shu Software Engineer at Vercel [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/shuding_/status/1580914106881970177?s=20&t=Ks8JR5uZBO77ELJMzehHEQ) * Recognitions Oct 2, 2022 > “🛡 In @HTTPArchive's Web Almanac security chapter, @Saptak013, @liran\_tal& @\_clarkio share correlations between security adoption measures. They also discuss Web Application Security Working Group's standards & drafts.” S Snyk [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/snyksec/status/1576672117315305472?s=20&t=Ks8JR5uZBO77ELJMzehHEQ) * Awards Jul 18, 2022 ### JavaScriptLandia Pathfinder Security Award to Liran Tal > “Flattered and deeply honored to be awarded the @OpenJSF JavaScriptLandia Pathfinder Security Award for 2022, announced on OpenJS World 2022 in Austin 🥰. Many thanks to everyone who have nominated me. I'm passionate to educate and help improve developer security for us all.” LT Liran Tal Director of Developer Advocacy, Snyk [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/liran_tal/status/1549046391053303808?s=20&t=Ks8JR5uZBO77ELJMzehHEQ) * Recognitions Jul 3, 2022 > “After being in a workshop by @liran\_tal and realizing that RegExps can be exploited fairly easily, I decided to use a validation library. I even contributed to the @DefinitelyTyped definition of it :D” FC ![](/images/blog/fcarrascosa_dev.jpg) Fernando Carrascosa Tech Lead [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/fcarrascosa_dev/status/1543694130940870659) * Awards Jun 16, 2022 ### JavaScriptLandia Pathfinder Security Award to Liran Tal > “Congratulations again to the recipients of our first ever JavaScriptLandia awards last week at #openjsworld22! ⭐️ @BethGriggs\_⭐️@matteocollina ⭐️Darshan Sen ⭐️@TzviyaSiegman ⭐️@liran\_tal ⭐️ @wesbos” OF OpenJS Foundation [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/openjsf/status/1537197087481155584) * Recognitions Jun 16, 2022 > “Thanks to @liran\_tal, now I have a better understanding why you should always use “—ignore-scripts” within your 'npm install' calls 😈 #JSNation #gitnation” KK Konstantin Klimashevich Program Committee member | @thejsnation @reactsummit @ReactAdvanced @reactdayberlin ❤ JS [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/mrkosima/status/1537380873842065408?s=20&t=S3d-COKIhE7wpjBIUz20Nw) * Recognitions Jun 16, 2022 > “I know I'm not allowed to call favsies but REALLY enjoyed @TauriApps' and @liran\_tal sessions at #jsnation on, respectively, shipping code with a smaller footprint using open source, and OSS supply chain security 🔒” F Floor Early startups dev advisor [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/FloorDrees/status/1537377621742321664?s=20&t=8WC6uhF4SAAWYxj1vVN88A) * Recognitions Jun 7, 2022 > “JavascriptLandia Security pathfinder award @liran\_tal #openjsworld22” WA Waleed Ashraf Member @Node.js [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/WaleedAshraf01/status/1534216733149614086?s=20&t=F9ihrYB8lNz-iPsLX8LESA) * Recognitions Jun 7, 2022 > “uuhuuuuuu congrats @liran\_tal for the Pathfinder award for security 🤩🤩 #openjsworld22 #openjsworld” EW Erick Wendel GitHub Star, Node.js collaborator [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/erickwendel_/status/1534216994899238913?s=20&t=k4BsDi1cMF7b1VrQYu5NcA) * Recognitions May 30, 2022 > “Thanks @liran\_tal, you had great insights and it was a pleasure to pick your brain.” AM Agam More Dev Growth - Remote Dev - Creator of http://Unzip.dev [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/agammore/status/1531275415968485376?s=20&t=yIpGR6eEYe37YfXdXVd-rw) * Recognitions May 8, 2022 > “Thanks Liran! The island tech community is wonderful and we're proud to be part of it. Your presentation was fantastic and spurred discussion at our firm about how to be more deliberate about web security.” SG Sebastian Good Co-founder of @experoinc [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/sebastiangood/status/1523063592740077568?s=20&t=65FSTY4xgeIV5ZTdYvqd0w) * Recognitions May 7, 2022 > “Did you already hack a React App? We are doing it with @liran\_tal #JSDayCAN2022” FC ![](/images/blog/fcarrascosa_dev.jpg) Fernando Carrascosa Tech Lead and Senior Front End Engineer @INGnl Web [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/fcarrascosa_dev/status/1522894648968101888?s=20&t=W-PkBSPwCvMAoYOUUf1SlQ) * Recognitions May 5, 2022 > “Being part of @canariasjs staff gives me the privilege to attend and record @liran\_tal workshop. Wonderful professional and better person. #JSDayCAN2022” GR Goyo Regalado Software Engineer [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/goyoregalado/status/1522254938373603332?s=20&t=TZUultVDBKnPYj1mIZFhzg) * Recognitions Mar 29, 2022 > “'Ready, Code, Push'- Fascinating Advancing open source course, lead by @liran\_tal” OM Or Manor DataGeek & Google Developers Women Techmaker Ambassador(WTM) [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/OrManor3/status/1508865619252453380?s=20&t=wcQoWWMcXNOsBRAJS7EH4A) * Recognitions Mar 15, 2022 > “תפקיד הDeveloper Relations הוא אחד המאתגרים שיש. אנשי DevRel טובים צריכים לשמור על איזון לא פשוט בין רמה טכנית גבוהה, יכולות תקשורת והעברת מסרים, ויצירה מתמשכת של תוכן בעל ערך. ממש כיף לראות נציגות משלנו, @liran\_tal, ברשימת 100 אנשי הDevRel המשפיעים בעולם https://ecairn.com/blog/top-100-influencers-devrel” LY Liad Yosef Head of Frontend at Duda [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/liadyosef/status/1503634530854440961?s=20&t=pXlz5XOYCCI8MIADdBCzRg) * Recognitions Feb 15, 2022 > “We would like to thank 470 npm practitioners who participated in our research and provided valuable feedback. The paper is available in arXiv: https://lnkd.in/gwGt989T. @liran\_tal” NZ Nusrat Zahan PhD Candidate@NCSU CS || Former Research Intern @Microsoft [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/NusratSwarna/status/1493648308291526657?s=20&t=nmb9xDmgqvdhC1dgAqYmrw) * Shoutouts Jan 28, 2022 > “Just want to give a shout out to @liran\_tal for writing this cheatsheet for dockerizing nodejs apps: https://snyk.io/wp-content/uploads/10-best-practices-to-containerize-Node.js-web-applications-with-Docker.pdf I don't know how many times I've pointed people to it.” JO Jarrod Overson CTO & Founder of @candle\_corp [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/jsoverson/status/1487094674779160578?s=20&t=ukNgsdA0H7oIuuGgHBbkVA) * Recognitions Jan 25, 2022 > “Highly recommend this beyond-the-basics Node.js talk by Liran Tal 'Mastering Node.js best practices for Docker-based applications' https://youtu.be/VSEx8gV51lY” YG Yoni Goldberg Node.js consultant [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/goldbergyoni/status/1485986577251803140?s=20&t=3sIH1duw-OV1Qts5YxLYBA) * Recognitions Nov 27, 2021 > “Highly recommending you to follow @liran\_tal as he has been doing a lot of work on improving security of JavaScript & Node.js projects. https://github.com/lirantal has some of the past tools etc. listed, and he does a good amount of writing about the topic.” DS Daniel Schildt Engineer [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/autiomaa/status/1464684215245672455) * Shoutouts Nov 21, 2021 > “An ESLint plugin to detect and stop Trojan Source attacks #infosec #javascript” JP JS Party [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/JSPartyFM/status/1462844328011780107?s=20&t=ZuUSsgvoQDhF_k1ZUfx58g) * Recognitions Nov 18, 2021 > “Some of the things I'm teaching I know from you 😁” ZT Zbyszek Tenerowicz Software Engineer [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/naugtur/status/1461419189235765253) * Recognitions Oct 30, 2021 > “Holiday it is coming to an end. I was almost entirely absent from social media but did not code for two weeks! 🤯 I did watch the whole start wars movies instead & finished reading @liran\_tal book “Essential Node.js Security for Express Web Applications” which I totally recommend” EA Ewerton Azevedo Engineer [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/EwertonAzeved_/status/1454479192825942016) * Recognitions Oct 29, 2021 > “Security is such an overseen topic on FE development. The @snyksec team is doing a great job in sharing knowledge and @liran\_tal is producing content left and right!!” AF Atila Fassina Engineer [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/AtilaFassina/status/1454020253747384322) * Awards Jun 16, 2021 ### GitHub Star > “Congratulations to @liran\_tal, on becoming a GitHub Star ⭐. Liran ❤️s making security accessible to all. He's a maintainer, speaker, author, and mentor. Check out his GitHub Star profile.” G GitHub [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/github/status/1405191446232289287?s=20&t=B6445yu9owcKtBEnSFB2rA) * Recognitions May 31, 2021 > “Good managers push you forward. Amazing ones keep doing it long after you left. Thank you @liran\_tal ❤️” IC Idan Cohen Software Developer [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/Idan_Co/status/1399354898014167049) * Recognitions May 18, 2021 > “Bumping from January. Great resource from @liran\_tal and the Snyk team.” KW Kenn White Engineer [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/kennwhite/status/1394640878527041536) * Recognitions May 14, 2021 > “This has become my primary source for learning docker with node. Thanks for sharing these 💝” DS ![](/images/blog/cryptus_neoxys.jpg) Dev Sharma Software Developer [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/cryptus_neoxys/status/1393221416175034369) * Recognitions Jan 13, 2021 > “This is one of the best guides I've seen on this topic, really cool stuff. Definitely going to take a look at @snyksec's @github action to add it in our @hoprnet project.” JA ![](/images/blog/jjperezaguinaga.jpg) Jose Aguinaga Head of Engineering at @hoprnet [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/0xjjpa/status/1349368415014825989) * Recognitions Nov 12, 2020 > “What an honor. Thank you Liran. Some people talk about AppSec (me) and some people really dig in and do the work (you). I'm a big fan. 🤙🏻” JM ![](/images/blog/manicode.jpg) Jim Manico OWASP Leader [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/manicode/status/1326929685553451008) * Recognitions Jan 9, 2020 > “I want to publicly thank the amazing work that @snyksec is doing for help us to understand what is going on in the #OpenSource ecosystem regarding #Security.This awesome talk from @liran\_tal is one of the keys to understand the big picture. 👏👏👏” UG Ulises Gascon Senior Software Engineer [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/kom_256/status/1215267987860656128) * Shoutouts Nov 11, 2019 > “Dockly is a lightweight CLI Docker management tool. Limited but useful when using SSH.” RT Razvan T. Coloja Linux admin and SBC enthusiast [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/cypresstwist/status/1193669147445645312?s=20&t=7g0jjfapweuiG8I8QNQXdg) * Recognitions Nov 7, 2019 > “Look what I picked up at #OReillySACon. Kudos @liran\_tal @guypod and @snyksec!” AD Avi Douglen Founder and CEO Bounce Security [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/sec_tigger/status/1192446277184884741) * Recognitions Nov 5, 2019 > “Excellent talk by @liran\_tal at @devseccon TLV. We know that open source packages are dangerous - containers contain lots of them and are VERY dangerous!” ES Ethan Schorer AppSec Team Leader, Monday.com [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/ethan_sec/status/1191723303565766656) * Shoutouts Oct 8, 2019 > “Quickly find publicly known security vulnerabilities in a website's JS libs 🖋 by @liran\_tal 💭 #cli #javascript #security https://changelog.com/news/83PM ” C Changelog Tech Lead [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/changelog/status/1181420710826250240?s=20&t=eb6Ag_vuOAx631AwXtuuAA) * Recognitions Oct 1, 2019 > “Remember when I said use a lock file and you will be safe? Turns out it's not that that simple! Great read from @liran\_tal Why npm lockfiles can be a security blindspot for injecting malicious modules | Snyk https://buff.ly/2mDI5on” CL Chris Laughlin Software Engineer [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/chrislaughlin/status/1178955716184424448) * Shoutouts May 22, 2019 > “Dockly - Manage Docker Containers From Terminal #Dockly #Docker #Virtualization #ManageDockers #LinuxContainers #Nodejs #Opensource #CLI https://ostechnix.com/dockly-manage-docker-containers-from-terminal/” O OSTechNix [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/ostechnix/status/1131198599478611968?s=20&t=yu7H7I1cm9TrmFDVss1Hmg) * Recognitions May 22, 2019 > “Convinced I gotta get @snyksec into my projects after seeing @liran\_tal's talk on security. @VoxxedFrontend” VD Vlad Durnea CEO @madapes [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/durnea/status/1131181340882292737) * Shoutouts May 2, 2019 > “🐳 lirantal/dockly Immersive terminal interface for managing #docker containers and services https://github.com/lirantal/dockly” QA Quentin Adam CEO @clever\_cloud, co-founder @\_icilundi, Chairman @OpenInternetPro, co-founder @Makair\_fr [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/waxzce/status/1123886351924043777?s=20&t=e5bES9HUGVUAGUC9ZniFlQ) * Recognitions Apr 21, 2019 > “Thanks to @liran\_tal, @HugoLocurcio and Hongarc for the contributions to MockIt yesterday 🙇‍♂️ 🎉 👍 I found https://allcontributors.org through @kentcdodds open source work, and I think it's such a great tool!” DB David Boyne Engineer [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/boyney123/status/1119908611902386176) * Recognitions Mar 10, 2019 > “The change that I made in @liran\_tal's lockfile-lint just saved me from committing "version": "file:" in my package-lock.json 👌🏻👍🏻” JS James Singleton Senior Software Engineer, Zendesk [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/ThisIsSingleton/status/1237247574647525376) * Shoutouts Dec 20, 2018 > “dockly is an immersive terminal interface for managing docker containers and services https://buff.ly/2IHF1gg” l learnk8s [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/learnk8s/status/1075677503782563840?s=20&t=_zC7skWp11Cxb3o13e6VzQ) * Shoutouts May 6, 2018 > “If you're working with #Docker, do yourself a favour and checkout @liran\_tal dockly https://github.com/lirantal/dockly” KC Kim Carter Founder of http://binarymist.io, creator of @purpleteamlabs [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/binarymist/status/993219107347664897?s=20&t=UjljB89LN4f4p4uCaSSXSg) * Recognitions Oct 9, 2013 > “בהרצאה של לירן טל, אחד המתכנתים הטובים שאני מכיר :-) #drupalcampisrael2013” RB Ran Bar Zik Senior Architect at Cyberark [Read original post ↗︎](https://twitter.com/barzik/status/387842619650629633?s=20&t=Vk82PLpX6wQESmes7LxffQ) No categories selected. 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