Mikkel Nielsen
Cybersecurity Intern at itm8 Danmark
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolMikkel Nielsen is an IT security bachelor student and hands-on cybersecurity practitioner based in Copenhagen with eight years of technical and customer-facing experience. Currently a Cybersecurity Intern at itm8 Danmark, he focuses on network and infrastructure defense, SOC operations, incident response, and governance frameworks like ISO 27001, NIS2 and NIST, while automating workflows with Python. His background includes building secure backend and CI/CD workflows for a legal‑tech platform and practical operational roles at Norlys where he combined release testing, troubleshooting and partner coordination to ensure service integrity. Comfortable both with firewalls, segmentation and monitoring and with translating technical issues for stakeholders, he brings a pragmatic blend of field experience and formal security training. An engineer who started in frontline support and evolved into defense-oriented automation, he’s especially strong at turning operational knowledge into repeatable, secure processes.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
STX, Samfundsfaglig, STX, Samfundsfaglig at Birkerød Gymnasium, STX, HF, IB & KostskoleBachelor's degree, IT-Security, Bachelor's degree, IT-Security at EK - Erhvervsakademi KøbenhavnGithub contributions (5)
Povlsen/Clientside_H2
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:67 commits, 51 pushes in 6 days
Povlsen/NewTwitter
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:47 pushes in 1 day
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.