Helgi Waag
Information Technology Security Engineer
Faroe Islands
Summary
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Top SchoolHelgi Waag is an Information Technology Security Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and operating secure Linux-based infrastructure from the Faroe Islands. He is RHCSA-certified and skilled in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ansible/Ansible Tower, and PKI tooling (EJBCA and SignServer), bringing practical configuration-management and certificate lifecycle expertise to production environments. Currently at Bakkafrost, he combines systems engineering rigor with a security-first mindset developed across roles at Elektron and earlier technical support and QA positions. His background includes applied research work at Copenhagen Business School, where he extended his master's thesis into part-time research—an uncommon bridge between academic analytics and day-to-day operations. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, auditable solutions and smooth operational handoffs in regulated or high-availability contexts.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
HF supplering, HF supplering at KVUCMaster's Degree, cand.merc.it, Master's Degree, cand.merc.it at Copenhagen Business SchoolHTX, HTX at Tekniski Skúli í KlaksvíkHA(it), HA(it) at CBS
English, Danish, faroese
Github Skills (12)
yt-dlp8
youtube-dl8
youtube8
mount8
python8
octoprint7
raspberry7
pi7
hdmi6
raspberry-pi4
3d-printer4
3d-printing4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
helgiw/pi400-mount
Jan 2021 - Feb 2021
A screen mount for the Raspberry Pi 400
Contributions:15 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 23 days
raspberry-pioctoprintmount3d-printerraspberry
jakupmichaelsen/piksil
Oct 2023 - Jan 2025
Faroese 2D platformer
Contributions:3 PRs in 1 year 3 months
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