Andreas Nilsson
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolAndreas Nilsson is a seasoned security technologist and leader with over a decade of hands-on and executive experience shaping security for high‑performance systems, including senior roles as CISO and Head of Systems at D. E. Shaw and product security leadership at MongoDB. He blends deep technical roots—cryptography, C/C++, authentication, and low‑level systems—with strategic oversight of cloud, secure architecture, and SDL across trading and database platforms. Andreas’s background spans startups and blue‑chip firms where he built FIPS‑grade crypto, pre‑boot full‑disk encryption components, and drove security roadmaps for both open‑source and cloud services. Based in Stockholm, he couples rigorous academic training in computer security and engineering physics with a recent pivot into sustainable energy studies, signaling broad curiosity and a systems‑level approach to risk and resilience.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
FyrisskolanMaster of Science Sustainable Energy Engineering, Master of Science Sustainable Energy Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science Computer Security, Master of Science Computer Security at Columbia EngineeringUNSW Sydney
English, German, Swedish
Github Skills (18)
nosql10
atlas10
atlassian10
mongodb-database10
database-driver10
mongodb-driver10
driver10
mongoose-plugin10
mongodb10
database10
operation9
concurrent9
networking9
cpp9
high-performance8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
hawka/mongo-kmip-prototype
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:7 pushes in 20 days
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