Fred Blaise
Chief Information Security Officer
Leysin, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolFred Blaise is a seasoned product security and engineering leader with 11 years of focused experience building scalable security platforms and programs across enterprise and cloud environments. Currently CISO at Light Frame and Special Advisor to SecureFlag, he has led global teams of 40+ to secure hundreds of applications and empower thousands of engineers through pragmatic SDL, vulnerability management at scale, and hands-on training. He combines deep technical chops—contributions to the widely used OWASP DefectDojo project and practical work on parsers and tooling—with infrastructure expertise from Jenkins, Kubernetes, Terraform and multi-cloud deployments. Known for turning security strategy into executable roadmaps (aligned with NIST CSF, OWASP SAMM and CMMI), he also founded local DevSecOps communities and brings a rare blend of product-focused security, incident response, and developer enablement. Based in Leysin, Switzerland, he pairs a systems-engineering pedigree with a habit of “keeping hands dirty” to retain credibility with engineering teams.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BAC Philosophy literature and languages, BAC Philosophy literature and languages at Lycée MarquetteBachelor Computer Information Systems, Bachelor Computer Information Systems at University of Louisiana MonroeMaster of Science Computer Information Systems, Master of Science Computer Information Systems at Boston University
English, French, German
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Github Skills (8)
devsecops10
vulnerability-management10
python10
django10
security10
api-design9
google-docs-api6
google-drive-api6
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
DefectDojo/django-DefectDojo
Mar 2019 - Aug 2021
DevSecOps, ASPM, Vulnerability Management. All on one platform.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:5 releases, 539 reviews, 442 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Fred made several contributions related to security and back-end improvements within the Django-based DevSecOps platform. They addressed security vulnerabilities by fixing Snyk import issues and handling UTF-8 encoding in the code. Additionally, they made enhancements to the platform by incorporating changes to the Snyk parser and the Twistlock parser and also adding new features such as the ability to parse the outputs of various security tools. These changes demonstrate a focus on enhancing the security and functionality of the DefectDojo platform.
pythondjangovulnerability-managementbugbountydefectdojo
madchap/artifactory-plugin
Mar 2019 - Feb 2024
Jenkins artifactory plugin
Contributions:12 PRs, 39 pushes, 37 branches in 5 years
jenkinsartifactoryjenkins-pluginjenkins-api-plugin
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