Sven Krohlas
Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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SeniorSven Krohlas is a seasoned detection engineer and IT security consultant with 19 years of experience specializing in mail security, phishing, malware detection, and spam. Based in Karlsruhe, Germany, he currently leads phishing detection at Spamhaus Technology Ltd, where he designs scalable data collection and investigation tooling (Elastic, Python) to support takedowns and investigations. Previously, he built mail security capabilities at 1&1 Internet, including DMARC/SPF/DKIM, brute-force protections, and cross-brand collaboration through eco competence groups; he also led client trainings and coordinated industry-wide initiatives. His career spans hands-on development, security policy, and incident response, with a track record of coordinating with product management, legal, ISPs and brands to reduce abuse and fraud. Early in his career he contributed to KDE's Amarok project as a developer and advocate, and taught OS concepts at Universität Karlsruhe, reflecting a blend of software craftsmanship and education. He holds a Diplom in Informatik from Universität Karlsruhe and brings a practical, scalable security mindset to complex email ecosystems.
20 years of coding experience
Github Skills (6)
tar6
file-manager3
portable3
golang3
cli3
command-line3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
mikatammi/amarok-spotify
Mar 2006 - Aug 2013
Contributions:276 commits in 7 years 6 months
wummel/patool
Jul 2018 - Oct 2018
patool is a portable command line archive file manager
Contributions:2 comments, 1 issue in 2 months
golangarchiveportablecommand-linetar
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