Björn Abt
IT Security Officer at Paul Scherrer Institut PSI
Villigen, Aargau, Switzerland
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Top SchoolBjörn Abt is an IT Security Officer with over a decade of hands-on experience uniting information security governance, secure software development life cycle practices, and architecture for research infrastructure. Based at the Paul Scherrer Institut, he progressed from software architect and system engineer to lead IT security initiatives, including steering SAML2 single sign-on efforts for Europe’s Neutron and Photon community. He combines deep standards expertise (ISO27000, RADIUS, SAML/Shibboleth) with practical web and ECM development skills (Java, PHP, Alfresco), allowing him to design both policy and implementable technical controls. As a former CTO and founder of an ECM company, he brings entrepreneurial product-sense to large institutional environments and multidisciplinary projects. Trained in software architecture (DAS, HTZ), he is comfortable translating requirements and UML-backed designs into secure, auditable systems. Colleagues value him for bridging governance and engineering—turning compliance frameworks into working, developer-friendly solutions.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Kantonsschule BadenDAS, Software Architecture, DAS, Software Architecture at Hochschule für Technik Zürich
German, Swedish, English, French, Russian, Italian
Github Skills (2)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
flowedback/flowedback.github.io
Sep 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 270 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
c00kiemon5ter/UmbrellaIdP3
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:26 commits in 7 days
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