Kyrre Kongsgård
Staff Engineer, R&D at DNB
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolKyrre 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.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of OsloBachelor's degree Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Mathematics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenMaster's degree Computational Science, Master's degree Computational Science at University of Amsterdam
Github Skills (125)
postgresql10
python10
toolbox10
pyspark10
duckdb10
polars10
parquet10
pandas10
sql10
database10
sqlite10
mysql10
in-memory10
java10
pyarrow10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
AlleKjennerIngvildLLC/instamine
Nov 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:4 releases, 44 commits, 35 pushes in 3 months
kyrre/cryptopals
Jan 2018 - Dec 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 7 years 1 month
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