Summary
Ola Nordstrom is a Lead Software Engineer specializing in application security with 13 years of experience building secure systems across startups and enterprise products. Based in California, she has led security engineering efforts at Backblaze and Optimizely and previously architected client security and secure IPC at Citrix, earning patents for mobile secret-sharing and resilient PIN validation. Skilled in threat modeling, cryptography, FIPS/common criteria, and deploying SDLs, she couples hands-on implementation (CSP enforcement, secure session management, cloud automation) with cross-functional and executive communication. Notable for turning security proposals into funded, production solutions, she also drove compliance initiatives (PCI, SOC 2, ISO 27001) and operationalized bug bounty and telemetry-driven defenses.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology