Markus Schmall
Chief Information Security Officer
Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolMarkus Schmall is a seasoned Chief Information Security Officer with 14 years of leadership in enterprise cybersecurity, currently heading Covestro’s security strategy from Düsseldorf. He combines deep technical roots—dating back to developing the AMIGA viruskiller "Virusworkshop"—with practical experience running large security organizations at Deutsche Börse and Deutsche Telekom. At DTAG he built and led cross-functional teams for application security, pentesting, honeypots, bug bounties and red teaming, and owned security processes used by 1,000+ internal users. His strengths are designing automated pentest solutions, operationalizing developer security workflows, and translating complex security requirements into auditable, resilient programs. Markus holds advanced computer science credentials from the University of Hamburg and Hildesheim, blending academic rigor with hands-on engineering. He’s known for pushing measurable resilience rather than just compliance, bringing a developer’s mindset to executive security decisions.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. Informatik, Dr. Informatik at University of HamburgDiplom Informatik, Diplom Informatik at Stiftung Universität HildesheimDiplom-Informatiker Informatik, Diplom-Informatiker Informatik at University of Hildesheim
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Github Skills (31)
deception10
honeypot10
elk10
network-security10
pot10
data-exchange9
security9
docker9
memcached9
backend9
flask8
api8
backend-api8
sanic8
web-application8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
schmalle/MysqlPot
Dec 2011 - Oct 2012
Contributions:44 commits in 9 months
schmalle/Servletpot
Dec 2011 - May 2012
Contributions:34 commits in 4 months
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