Heikki Salo
Senior Security Engineer at Crayon
Jyväskylä, Mainland Finland
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Top SchoolHeikki Salo is a Senior Security Engineer based in Jyväskylä, Finland, with 16 years of experience blending software development and hands-on security practice across telecom, healthcare, and consulting environments. He has led red team operations, DevSecOps initiatives, secure development coaching, and forensic source-code audits, helping organizations harden cloud and application landscapes. At Crayon he focuses on cloud security while previous roles at Nixu, JYVSECTEC and Qvantel saw him build internal tooling, deliver large-scale exercises, and be the first security hire in a managed-service environment. Heikki’s background as a full-stack developer and MSc in Mathematical Information Technology gives him a rare combination of coding fluency and formal analytical training. Colleagues rely on him for translating security concerns into practical developer workflows and training that stick. Despite a quiet public GitHub footprint, his track record shows deep applied experience in both offensive and defensive security engineering.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Mathematical Information Technology, Mathematics, Statistics, Master of Science (MSc), Mathematical Information Technology, Mathematics, Statistics at Jyväskylän yliopisto
Finnish, English, Swedish
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Github Skills (36)
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intelligent10
microsoft9
kubernetes9
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django9
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degrees9
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cloud-native9
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
deggis/ca-tharsis
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:17 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
deggis/rasterizer
Sep 2012 - Feb 2013
Contributions:9 commits in 5 months
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