Summary
John De Kroon is a technical director and security researcher with 13 years of hands-on experience delivering security automation and tooling for banks, telecoms and public sector organizations. He founded and leads product development at CyberAnt, helping companies gain actionable insight into their cyber posture while maintaining a practitioner’s eye from earlier ethical hacking roles at Rabobank and DUO. John combines offensive security expertise—pentesting, code analysis and incident support—with product-minded engineering, having built commercial and freelance web solutions earlier in his career. Based in the Netherlands, he bridges developer teams and security operations to turn complex vulnerabilities into practical, auditable fixes. An understated strength is his track record of moving between deep technical testing and product leadership, which enables pragmatic, scalable security solutions.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Primary School, Primary School at De Horizon
Havo, Profiel NG, Havo, Profiel NG at Greijdanus college
Minor Programmeren, Information Technology, Minor Programmeren, Information Technology at Universiteit van Amsterdam
Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology at Hogeschool Windesheim Flevoland
Firebrand