Summary
Kyrre Kongsgård is a Staff Engineer in R&D based in Oslo with 13 years of experience applying machine learning and data science to information security and threat detection. He leads a research group inside DNB’s Cyber Defense Center, building bespoke detection and incident-response platforms using tools like DuckDB, Ibis, Observable notebooks and Databricks. His background spans defense R&D at FFI and commercial ML consulting, and he holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Oslo. Pragmatic and research-driven, Kyrre bridges rigorous academic methods with production engineering to turn complex security telemetry into actionable detections. An under-the-radar strength is his ability to design lightweight, query-first detection pipelines that scale without heavy infrastructure overhead.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Oslo
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Master's degree, Computational Science, Master's degree, Computational Science at University of Amsterdam