Florian W is a Staff Product Security Engineer based in London with 12 years of hands-on experience blending application security, security tooling, and software engineering. He moves fluidly between building secure systems and writing production code, having held senior security roles at Wise and a security-focused backend role at Thought Machine before stepping into product security leadership. Florian also brings startup and founder experience—co-founding Open Climate Fix and briefly Smithy—so he combines technical depth with product and operational instincts. He holds an MSc in Software and Systems Security from Oxford and a BSc in IT-Systems Engineering from Hasso Plattner Institute, reflecting strong formal training alongside practical delivery. Notably, his career balances security stewardship with engineering velocity: he champions secure development practices while remaining an active contributor to engineering teams shipping features.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Software and Systems Security, Master of Science - MS Software and Systems Security at University of Oxford
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) IT-Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) IT-Systems Engineering at Hasso Plattner Institute
Dashboard visualising the usage of MOOC-Platforms like openHPI, openSAP and more.
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Florian W - Staff Product Security Engineer at doxy.me