Björn Edström
CISO at Helsing
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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SeniorBjörn Edström is a seasoned information security leader with 15 years of experience blending deep technical expertise and strategic security leadership across fast-moving R&D environments. He has led security at AI and healthcare-focused companies—most recently as CISO at Helsing and previously Head of Security at Peltarion and senior roles at Spotify—helping scale secure platforms and embed security into product and engineering workflows. Björn excels at translating complex technical risks into practical programs, driving cybersecurity uplift across portfolios, and advising on cyber due diligence for investments. Known for hands-on skills in cryptography, protocol design, code audits and incident response, he pairs that with coaching CISOs and building security-ready organizations. Based in Stockholm, he enjoys hacking on technical problems and thrives where research-grade innovation meets operational security.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
sha10
fips9
driver9
python8
cassandra8
openbsd7
thrift7
java2
darktable1
colorspace1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bjornedstrom/python-aesgcm
Jul 2014 - Nov 2015
Contributions:22 commits, 1 push in 1 year 4 months
bjornedstrom/python-signify
Aug 2015 - Feb 2017
OpenBSD Signify for Python
Contributions:60 commits, 2 PRs, 63 pushes in 1 year 6 months
openbsdpython
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