Pixee Wins 2026 DEVIES Award for AppSecOps
Pixee won a 2026 DEVIES Award in the AppSecOps category.
The DEVIES have been around for 14 years. They're the premier annual awards for developer tools and software engineering — selected from hundreds of nominations by the independent DevNetwork Advisory Board, judged on technical innovation, industry impact, and market adoption. The awards were presented at DeveloperWeek 2026 in San Jose, the world's largest independent developer conference, with attendees from over 150 countries.
This isn't a “pay to play” thing. It's peer recognition from the developer and engineering community. And that matters to us.
Why AppSecOps Matters
What makes me genuinely proud is the category: AppSecOps. Not “best marketing” or “most funding raised.” The recognition is for the actual work — automating triage and remediation so security teams can stop drowning in backlogs they'll never manually clear.
That problem is worth dwelling on for a second. Two-thirds of organizations are sitting on 100,000+ open vulnerabilities. The average time to remediate is 252 days. False positive rates across the industry run between 71% and 88%.
Do the math on your own team. How many vulnerabilities can you realistically investigate per week? 20? 50? Even at 100, with 132 new CVEs published every day, you're underwater before Monday's coffee.
This is a structural problem, not an effort problem. The volume grows every year. Your team doesn't. And every scanner you add multiplies the noise without multiplying your capacity to act on it.
That's the problem space Pixee operates in. We automate both sides of it — triage and remediation — because solving one without the other just moves the bottleneck.
On the triage side, we cut through false positive noise so your team focuses on what's actually exploitable in your environment, not what a generic severity score says might be dangerous somewhere in theory.
On the remediation side, we generate pull requests that match your codebase conventions, your coding patterns, your context. The result: developers actually merge them.
That last part is the whole game. If a developer won't merge your fix, you don't have a security tool. You have a notification generator.
This Is a Team Award
I want to be clear about something: this is a team award. The engineers who obsess over getting the fix right. The people who treat merge rate as the only metric that matters — because a security fix that sits unmerged is indistinguishable from a security fix that doesn't exist.
Building tools that developers trust enough to merge is hard. It requires understanding code at a level most security tools don't attempt. It means generating fixes that don't break tests, don't violate conventions, and don't create more work than they save.
Our team does that every day. This award recognizes their work.
What's Next
We're not going to use this as an excuse to write “award-winning” in every email subject line. We're going to keep doing what got us here: making security tools that respect developers' time and actually reduce risk.
We create PRs that developers merge. That matters more than any trophy.
But we'll take the trophy too.
The DEVIES Awards are produced by DevNetwork, the organizers of DeveloperWeek.
