Martin Hell
Consultant at Self-employed
Malmo, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolMartin Hell is a consultant and security strategist with nine years of industry experience and a strong academic background, including a Ph.D. in cryptology from Lund University. He has co-founded and led security-focused startups (notably Debricked) through exit, served as CISO and board member, and later guided product security and compliance at OpenText/Micro Focus. His research and teaching history spans cryptology, stream cipher design and analysis, and digital circuit design, giving him deep technical expertise in both theory and applied security. Martin blends hands-on technical assessment, standards-driven compliance (ISO 27001, SOC2), and product development with practical legal and economic literacy from supplemental studies. Based in Malmö, he also invests as an angel, signaling an interest in early-stage tech and scalable security solutions. A detail not obvious from titles: his profile reflects rare cross-discipline depth—academic cryptanalysis and real-world software supply chain security.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Cryptology, Ph.D. Cryptology at The Faculty of Engineering at Lund UniversityEconomics, Economics at Lund University
Github Skills (5)
hsts9
content-security-policy9
security6
application-security5
web-security5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
eit-lth/Advanced-Web-Security_EITN41
May 2017 - Nov 2019
Material for the Advanced Web Security course
Contributions:30 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
application-securitysecurityweb-securitycontent-security-policyhsts
Grain-128AEAD/Grain-128AEAD.github.io
Jun 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:8 commits, 8 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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