Jochen Kressin
Director at Symlink GmbH
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolJochen Kressin is a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur with over 18 years of experience building secure, scalable search and analytics platforms. As co-founder and CEO/CTO of Search Guard and director at Eliatra, he combines hands-on architecture and coding with commercial leadership around OpenSearch/Elasticsearch security. He has a track record of founding and scaling niche security and encryption businesses, from Symlink to go-ffwd, while advising startups as interim CTO. His background blends deep JEE and distributed-systems engineering with an MBA in IT, enabling him to translate technical trade-offs into viable business strategy. Based in Berlin, he specializes in high-traffic, mission-critical systems across finance, healthcare and telecoms, and still contributes code to the products he oversees. A detail not obvious from titles: he routinely bridges product, ops and sales teams to turn open-source projects into enterprise-grade offerings.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform Java (general), Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform Java (general) at Sun educational servicesDipl.-Ing. (FH) Computer Science, Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Computer Science at Offenburg University of Applied SciencesMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Information Technology, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Information Technology at University of Potsdam
English, German
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Github Skills (61)
meilisearch10
authorisation10
opensearch10
searchguard10
ssl10
audit10
authentication10
data-masking10
docker-compose10
multitenancy10
compose10
kibana10
secured10
security10
elasticsearch-plugin10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
floragunncom/search-guard-docs
Jun 2016 - Dec 2022
Official documentation for Search Guard, the Elasticsearch security suite (no PRs, go to gitlab)
Contributions:1943 commits, 22 PRs, 22 pushes in 6 years 7 months
elasticsearch-securityelksecuritykibanaelk-stack
jochenkressin/security
Nov 2021 - Mar 2022
🔐 Secure your cluster with TLS, numerous authentication backends, data masking, audit logging as well as role-based access control on indices, documents, and fields
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
indicesrole-basedloggingrolesecurity-scanner
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