James Sörling
Chief Executive Officer at Hack23
Gothenburg, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Sörling is a seasoned information security leader and CEO with over three decades of hands-on software development and 11 years in security-focused roles, currently leading Hack23 to showcase enterprise-grade security as a business differentiator. He specializes in cloud security, DevSecOps and embedding security into agile SDLCs without impeding innovation, having driven threat modeling, global bug bounty programs and security champion forums at large enterprises like Stena and Polestar. His background spans secure architecture, vulnerability management and open source program leadership, with deep operational experience across AWS, CI/CD tooling and security automation. James combines practitioner-level coding and systems experience from early J2EE and Unix roles to modern cloud-native architectures, giving him rare empathy for developers and architects alike. He is passionate about transparency and uses his company’s own ISMS as both foundation and marketing proof-point—turning controls and documented processes into client-facing evidence of expertise. An early BBS founder and lifelong tinkerer, he still brings that maker mindset to realistic security demonstrations and precision-focused projects.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computing Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computing Science at University of Gothenburg
Github Skills (200)
threejs10
devsecops10
maven-plugin10
security-automation10
terraform10
security10
disaster-recovery10
jenkins-plugin10
linter10
arm10
linting10
gradle-plugin10
eclipse10
government-data10
static-analysis10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Hack23/lambda-in-private-vpc
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
A highly available system that runs in multiple AWS regions at the same time. It uses AWS Resilience Hub to ensure compliance with policies for Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
Contributions:1 release, 77 reviews, 193 commits in 1 month
awsaws-regionschaos-engineeringcompliancecyber-security
Hack23/securityfixerbot
Nov 2020 - Aug 2025
Contributions:192 PRs, 222 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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