Harald Fischer
Security Aspect Lead (Office Of The CISO) at balena
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolHarald Fischer is a security-focused engineering leader with 9 years of experience, currently serving as Security Aspect Lead in the Office of the CISO and Staff Backend Engineer at balena. He combines hands-on TypeScript backend and embedded systems expertise with ISO 27001:2022-aligned ISMS design, risk assessment, and audit readiness to embed security from design through deployment. Harald has led cross-functional teams building large-scale IoT fleet management platforms, resilient microservice architectures, and secure CI/CD pipelines while also driving Zero Trust, compliance automation, and vulnerability remediation. He pairs practical incident response and disaster recovery planning with vendor negotiation and competency frameworks to scale organizational security maturity. An occasional meetup speaker and open-source contributor, he brings a rare blend of embedded, cloud, and security experience that helps translate complex compliance requirements (e.g., NIS2, CRA) into actionable engineering workstreams.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science - Pattern Recognition, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science - Pattern Recognition at Hochschule NiederrheinBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Technische Informatik, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Technische Informatik at Cologne University of Applied Sciences
German, English
Github Skills (114)
pinejs10
connected10
debian-linux10
api10
odata10
flash10
docker10
sd-card10
balena10
blockchain-network10
resin9
fingerprint9
wallet9
sdk9
rest9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
fisehara/cstimateFront
Jan 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 28 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
frontend
fisehara/api-world-22-pinejs
Oct 2022 - May 2023
API World 2022 PineJS Example Repository
Contributions:3 reviews, 10 PRs, 8 pushes in 6 months
rest-apiapinodejspinejs
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