Michael Dreher
Chief Information Security Officer
Greater Dusseldorf Area Germany
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Top SchoolMichael Dreher is a Chief Information Security Officer based in the Greater Düsseldorf area with 12 years of professional experience and a formal computer science background from RWTH Aachen. He blends deep hands-on full-stack development roots—spanning roles from senior web developer to full-stack engineer at SAP—with strategic security leadership since becoming CISO at Unique in 2022. His career includes long-term hands-on engagements and entrepreneurship (running his own IT business and a 20-year web development tenure at Germax), giving him a pragmatic, risk-aware approach to secure software delivery. Comfortable across frontend and backend stacks, he emphasizes confidentiality, integrity and availability while translating business risk into actionable technical controls. Known for bridging developer workflows and security practices, he brings both implementation experience and operational perspective to governance and incident readiness. Colleagues can expect a pragmatic leader who still codes and values measurable, auditable improvements to secure systems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-Inform., Informatik, Dipl.-Inform., Informatik at RWTH Aachen
German, English, French, Italian
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Github Skills (155)
controller10
redis-sentinel10
redis-streams10
npm-package10
command-line-tool10
monitoring10
redis-client10
pm210
dates10
shadow10
redisearch10
child-process10
spawn10
nodejs10
load-balancer10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
migg24/git-keeper
May 2016 - Dec 2018
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Contributions:2 releases, 46 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 7 months
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migg24/node
Feb 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes in 7 months
node-jsjavascriptruntimejavascript-runtimenodejs
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