Shelby Cunningham

Shelby Cunningham has been an advisory curator for the GitHub Advisory Database (GHAD) for five years. Her duties include, but are not limited to, organizing and publishing vulnerability information for the GHAD and gathering vulnerability information from project maintainers on GitHub to submit to the CVE list. Shelby has supported best security practices in the Python community by advising projects that are part of the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund and assisting with Python security open spaces at PyCon US 2024 and 2025. In 2025, she responded to multiple incidents involving compromise of legitimate packages in ecosystems supported by the GHAD.