Dirk Sigurdson
Owner, Your Boat Shop
Bothell, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDirk Sigurdson is a seasoned technology founder and engineering leader with over a decade of experience building secure, product-focused software from embedded systems to cloud services. As CTO and co-founder of multiple startups (Mobilisafe and Helm) and former Director at Rapid7, he has led architecture, product, and operations for mobile security, personal-server privacy solutions, and embedded OS projects. He combines hands-on development across bootloaders, kernels, mobile platforms and backend services with pragmatic engineering management and release discipline. Now running Your Boat Shop, he applies entrepreneurial grit and a builder’s mindset to both technical and small-business challenges from his base in Bothell, WA. An early career focus on trusted hardware and secure boot informs his enduring emphasis on privacy and operational reliability.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Mechanical Engineering at Harvard University
Github Skills (25)
email-server9
raspberry9
oasis9
linux8
distributions7
init7
vagrant7
systemd7
system6
raspberry-pi6
nodejs6
raspbian6
javascript6
sd-card6
raspberry-pi-os5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
privacylabs/ansible-mailstack
Jun 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:24 commits, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
HelmSecure/armbian-images
Dec 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:1 release, 17 commits, 5 pushes in 2 months
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