Kurt Seifried
Chief Innovation Officer
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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RockstarKurt Seifried is a seasoned information security strategist and chief innovation officer with 11+ years of experience securing cloud and open source ecosystems from his long tenure at the Cloud Security Alliance. He’s a prolific CVE issuer and founding director of the Distributed Weakness Filing Project, blending practical vulnerability triage with governance at scale. Kurt combines hands-on product security work from Red Hat’s security response teams with thought leadership as host of the Open Source Security Podcast and a regular security columnist. Now focused on blockchain and distributed ledger security, he brings a rare mix of applied incident response, standards-level coordination, and community-driven open source stewardship. Based in Edmonton, he’s known for turning complex disclosure processes into practical, federated solutions that empower maintainers and enterprises alike.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
German
Github Skills (200)
metadata10
automation10
geography10
webui10
vulnerabilities10
json10
typography10
sms10
phone-number10
gemini10
sca10
network10
factor10
security-vulnerability10
openai10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
cloudsecurityalliance/DLT-Security-Blockchain-TestEnv
Feb 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:122 commits, 113 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
distributedweaknessfiling/cvelist
Nov 2017 - Mar 2019
Pilot program for CVE submission through GitHub
Contributions:20 PRs, 315 pushes, 241 branches in 1 year 4 months
securitycvepilot
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