Håvard Molland
Senior Software Developer at Storebrand
Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway
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Top SchoolHåvard Molland is a senior software developer and security specialist with 11+ years of professional experience and a Ph.D. in cryptanalysis, bringing deep expertise in breaking and strengthening ciphers to practical product work. He moves fluently between research and engineering—shaping browser TLS code at Opera/Chromium, hardening mobile apps with cryptographic techniques at Promon, and leading security assessments and cloud infra work in banking and energy sectors. Active in standards and industry bodies (CA/Browser Forum, W3C, Chrome security group), he combines protocol-level knowledge with hands-on implementation across C/C++, Kotlin, Python, and IaC like Terraform. Colleagues rely on him for tough threat modeling and risk reports, and less obvious is his knack for translating subtle cryptanalytic insights into pragmatic defenses that reduce real-world attack surface.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Cryptography, cryptanalysis, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Cryptography, cryptanalysis at Universitetet i Bergen (UiB)Master’s Degree, Cryptography, Computer science, Master’s Degree, Cryptography, Computer science at University of Bergen (UiB)
Github Skills (12)
c1710
mtls10
error-handling10
ssl10
rust10
tls1210
c1110
tls1310
cryptography10
libtls10
security10
diffie-hellman9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
operasoftware/fake-store
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes in 1 day
jelmansouri/chromium-net
Dec 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:7 commits in 8 months
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