Summary
Christer Johansson is a systems specialist with 12+ years designing and securing web and API backends, currently focused on application security, WAF, and secure AWS infrastructure at TV4 Media. He combines deep hands-on experience in Go, Elixir, Ruby on Rails, Java and JavaScript with strong expertise in CI/CD (Travis, GitHub Actions), Terraform, Solr/Elasticsearch and Linux-based operations. Christer routinely performs pentests, OWASP-driven assessments and DPIAs, advising teams on PCI and GDPR-compliant architectures while building automated scanning and deployment pipelines. His background includes academic research (PhD-level numerical modeling) which surfaces in a rigorous, analytical approach to systems design and numerical analysis. He maintains a public GitHub (github.com/chrjoh) for hobby projects used to learn new technologies, reflecting a continual learning mindset. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic security guidance that bridges development, operations and compliance.
12 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Scientific Computing, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Scientific Computing at Stockholms universitet
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
English