Olivier Sels
Co-Founder at Secuma
Zutendaal, Limburg, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolOlivier Sels is a cybersecurity-focused DevSecOps engineer and entrepreneur with 14 years of experience building secure software and cloud infrastructure. As Co-Founder of Sels Software & Security and Secuma, he helps software teams embed security across the SDLC through risk analysis, threat modeling, SAST/DAST, vulnerability scanning, and IaC hardening. He combines deep Python expertise (10+ years) with 5+ years of hands-on AWS and network/cryptography experience to design practical, testable defenses that integrate into CI/CD pipelines. His background spans startups and product engineering roles—from Mobile Vikings to Magic Leap—giving him fluency in both product development and operational security. Based in Belgium, he brings a pragmatic founder’s mindset: translating complex threat models into actionable engineering tasks and tooling. Colleagues rely on him to bridge security strategy and developer workflows so security becomes a measurable part of delivery.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at KU LeuvenBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Hasselt University
Dutch, English
Github Skills (39)
zappa10
python10
django10
aws-lambda10
bottle10
pyramid10
aws10
api-gateway10
serverless-framework10
lambda10
serverless10
flask10
slack-integration7
oauth6
templating-engine6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
oliviersels/Zappa
Dec 2016 - Apr 2025
Serverless Python Web Services
Contributions:49 pushes, 10 branches in 8 years 4 months
pythonpython-webpyramidserverlessaws-lambda
secu-ma/polgen
Jun 2025 - Jun 2026
AI powered policies wiki
Contributions:29 PRs, 97 pushes, 34 branches in 1 year
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