Juergen Pabel
Chief Information Security Officer
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolJuergen Pabel is a seasoned IT security leader and current Chief Information Security Officer with 11+ years of focused experience building and running enterprise-grade security programs across large organizations. He has a track record at Deutsche Post DHL of creating and scaling security teams, unifying nationwide IT‑security standards, and managing KRITIS and eIDAS-related initiatives with multi-million euro budget responsibility. Hands-on by background, Juergen combines strategic leadership with technical expertise—earlier in his career he performed pentests, built ISMS frameworks and contributed backend improvements to open-source projects like the Kalliope personal assistant. Based in Cologne, he pairs an academic foundation in information assurance and computer science with practical experience operating SOCs, handling incident response, and organizing international hacker competitions. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex regulatory and technical requirements into operational programs that reduce risk and enable business goals.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MS Information Assurance, MS Information Assurance at Norwich UniversityBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (9)
speech-to-text10
speech-synthesis10
file-conversion10
ffmpeg10
python10
virtual-assistant10
home-automation9
flask8
flask-ask8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kalliope-project/kalliope
May 2021 - Oct 2022
Kalliope is a framework that will help you to create your own personal assistant.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 8 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Juergen primarily focused on implementing and refactoring core functionalities for the Kalliope project, specifically related to the 'play' neuron and audio file handling. Their work included introducing a new 'play' core neuron, modifying existing player modules to handle file conversions, and integrating caching mechanisms for dynamic class loading to improve efficiency. The user also addressed file format compatibility by leveraging ffmpeg for file conversion and integrated the use of `sndhdr` to validate the file type before processing. These changes aimed to improve the usability and functionality of the personal assistant project.
pythonassistantspeech-to-textbotlinux
juergenpabel/livecenter_sportschau_de
Sep 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:21 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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