"The New Zealand market is moving faster than ever before as organisations realise that developers need to take ownership of security, and Snyk equips them to tackle issues as they arise," said Snyk ANZ regional vice president Asanga Wanigatunga.

"Customers are challenging Snyk to think bigger and faster in order to help them achieve their goals. This couldn't be a better time to welcome Tessa and Stephen to the Snyk family to ensure we have unique expertise to support customers with ranging security needs."

Davis joins Snyk after spending 12 years at VMware, most recently as a staff solutions engineer.

She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Sydney, with majors in physics and the history and philosophy of science.

"New Zealand businesses are well known for their ingenuity and are typically early adopters of technologies and processes that help them innovate with speed and resilience. I'm incredibly excited to join Snyk at a time when security and DevOps teams are working together to future-proof their path to production for long-term sustainability and growth," said Davis.

"At Snyk, we take a platform approach with focus on developers and their experience. I'm focused on building on this and creating a thriving ecosystem that helps customers integrate security as early as possible into their software development life cycle."

Phillips joins Snyk from Westpac Bank New Zealand, where he served as CISO.

He previously held senior national sales roles at Sumo Logic, Micro Focus and HPE.

Earlier in his career Phillips worked as CTO at CallPlus, and in security sales at CA and Symantec.

He studied network engineering at AUT University.

"New Zealand embraced DevOps over the past decade and significantly accelerated during the pandemic. This pace unfortunately increases opportunity for security vulnerabilities and exploits," said Phillips.

"Snyk helps identify and fix vulnerabilities early and as easily as possible in this process. I am very excited to join Snyk and be part of the company's next phase of growth."