Markus Færevaag
Founder & CTO at Hugin.io
Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolMarkus Færevaag is a founder and CTO with 12 years of hands-on experience blending ethical hacking, incident response, and software engineering to make enterprise-grade cybersecurity accessible for SMBs. He launched Hugin to productize advanced SOC/MDR capabilities as user-friendly SaaS, drawing on prior leadership roles running red teams and coordinating incident response for telecom and critical infrastructure. A programmer at heart and active open-source contributor, Markus has improved core developer tooling like the widely used ohmyzsh project by enhancing its wd plugin with practical UX and completion fixes. His background spans applied research in binary analysis and fuzzing to commercial detection engineering and team building, giving him rare depth across offensive, defensive, and product domains. Based in Norway with an LSE MBA essentials background and MSc-level technical training, he combines technical rigor with strategic product sense to democratize security without sacrificing usability.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science and Engineering (MSc.Eng.), Computer Science and Engineering, Master of Science and Engineering (MSc.Eng.), Computer Science and Engineering at Danmarks Tekniske UniversitetAcademic Year, Nordic Skiing and Outdoor Life, Academic Year, Nordic Skiing and Outdoor Life at University of South-Eastern NorwayMaster of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science at 한국과학기술원(KAIST)Programming, GPA 3.5 (4.0-scale). See attachment, Programming, GPA 3.5 (4.0-scale). See attachment at Norges Informasjonsteknologiske Høgskole (NITH)London School of Economics and Political Science
English, Norwegian, Danish, French, kinesisk
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Github Skills (22)
oh-my-zsh10
scripting10
cli-app10
plugin10
cli-application10
zshrc10
script10
sh10
shell10
zsh10
utility9
macos6
timezone6
substring6
nsdate6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh
Jan 2015 - Nov 2017
🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,400+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 2 comments in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Markus primarily contributed to the `wd` plugin, enhancing its functionality and fixing bugs. They implemented features such as `ls` and `path` commands, which provide file listing and path display capabilities within the warp points. The user also addressed versioning and completion issues, updating the plugin and refining the user interface with new command options. The commits involved modifications to both the shell script and the supporting completion scripts.
oh-my-zsh-pluginpythonrails-pluginszsh-configurationauto-update
mfaerevaag/dots
Oct 2016 - Oct 2018
Contributions:120 commits, 87 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years
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