Johan Brissmyr
CEO & Co-founder at Castle
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJohan Brissmyr is a seasoned founder and engineering leader with 16 years of experience building secure, user-focused products and teams from embedded firmware to SaaS. As CEO and co-founder of Castle he specializes in protecting consumer-facing services from bots, account takeovers, and abusive behavior while balancing security with good design and usability. Prior ventures include authentication-as-a-service and a portable digital identity startup that applied machine learning to risk scoring, reflecting a consistent focus on trust, fraud prevention, and practical threat detection. He combines low-level systems expertise from early roles in embedded imaging and video codec platforms with product-led leadership and a track record of bootstrapping companies. Based in New York, he pairs hands-on technical judgment with an eye for usable security solutions that scale.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at The Faculty of Engineering at Lund University
Swedish, English, German
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Github Skills (71)
castle10
javascript9
jquery9
java-bindings9
sdk9
neo4j9
cypher9
one-time9
passwords9
directed-acyclic-graph9
authenticate9
factor-authentication9
graph9
neo4j-database9
database8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
castle/playground
Mar 2016 - Feb 2018
Example implementation of Castle
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
castle
castle/devise_castle
Apr 2014 - Mar 2018
Castle monitors your login system and stops account hijacks in real-time.
Contributions:118 commits, 1 PR, 14 pushes in 3 years 10 months
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