Name
Bartosz Gałek
GitHub Handle
bgalek
Tell us about yourself
Just as Obelix did not need a magic drink to be strong - Bartosz does not need coffee to always be full of energy and shares it with his team. Huge fan of board games, supporter and co-creator of open source software and the DevOps movement. Skilled in Java, Javascript, DevOps. Operates in Warsaw! Bartosz cannot resists Hackathon attendance.
Project Name
Season 3 - Secure Code Game (previously https://hackmerlin.io/)
Project Repo Link
https://github.com/skills/secure-code-game
Stream Date
Dates
08-22-2025
Twitter URL
No response
LinkedIn URL
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bartosz-galek/
Additional Information
(@jkcso writing now) Bartosz contributed the third season of the Secure Code Game that is teaching developers and students how to safely build LLM-based applications. There is a dedicated blog post about this here. We can both be part on the show or just him on the day.
I believe there is a lot of geeky information that the audience will love to hear on the engineering and design decisions that had to be made to turn a UI-first project such as https://hackmerlin.io/ into a backend-first game which is Season 3 of the Secure Code Game. We experimented with custom AI models and had interesting learnings before switching to GitHub Models. The audience will gain a lot of information on the defences they need to equip their LLM wrappers and get inspired from the creator of the last season.
The agenda of that Friday can be:
- Bartosz tell us about yourself
- Tell us more about your passion for gamification and open source (keep it general up to this point)
- Follow up question in case hackmerlin wasn't mentioned and how did he come up with the idea, how many players, impact, etc
- Opportunity here to speak in general about cyber security and/or security of open source.
- Tell us more about your partnership with the Security Lab, how did you come across?
- Were there any interesting engineering or decision decisions that had to be made for the third season to come to life?
- Demo and show us all
Name
Bartosz Gałek
GitHub Handle
bgalek
Tell us about yourself
Just as Obelix did not need a magic drink to be strong - Bartosz does not need coffee to always be full of energy and shares it with his team. Huge fan of board games, supporter and co-creator of open source software and the DevOps movement. Skilled in Java, Javascript, DevOps. Operates in Warsaw! Bartosz cannot resists Hackathon attendance.
Project Name
Season 3 - Secure Code Game (previously https://hackmerlin.io/)
Project Repo Link
https://github.com/skills/secure-code-game
Stream Date
Dates
08-22-2025
Twitter URL
No response
LinkedIn URL
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bartosz-galek/
Additional Information
(@jkcso writing now) Bartosz contributed the third season of the Secure Code Game that is teaching developers and students how to safely build LLM-based applications. There is a dedicated blog post about this here. We can both be part on the show or just him on the day.
I believe there is a lot of geeky information that the audience will love to hear on the engineering and design decisions that had to be made to turn a UI-first project such as https://hackmerlin.io/ into a backend-first game which is Season 3 of the Secure Code Game. We experimented with custom AI models and had interesting learnings before switching to GitHub Models. The audience will gain a lot of information on the defences they need to equip their LLM wrappers and get inspired from the creator of the last season.
The agenda of that Friday can be: