Patrik Nordlén
Founder & CTO at Gardera Security
Uppsala, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrik Nordlén is a seasoned security engineer and founder with two decades of hands-on experience spanning penetration testing, security engineering and DevSecOps. He has led and built security teams and programs at scale for organizations like Einride, H&M, Spotify and Klarna, combining leadership with active individual contribution—often developing tooling in Go and Python and operating predominantly on GCP. As Founder & CTO of Gardera Security and founder of Purple Team, he helps embed security into SDLCs, CI/CD and cloud-native workflows while automating vulnerability management and detection pipelines. His open-source contributions include performance and configurability improvements to DefectDojo, reflecting a pragmatic focus on maintainability and scalable vulnerability management. Based in Uppsala, Sweden, Patrik pairs deep offensive and defensive experience with a knack for turning security requirements into developer-friendly tooling and processes.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Luleå University of TechnologyEngineering Physics, Engineering Physics at Uppsala University
English, Swedish, French, German
Github Skills (7)
python10
django10
database-design9
security8
sql8
application-security7
vulnerability-management7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
DefectDojo/django-DefectDojo
Jun 2017 - Aug 2017
DevSecOps, ASPM, Vulnerability Management. All on one platform.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:97 commits, 7 PRs, 38 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Patrik primarily focused on addressing errors and improving query performance within the Django-based application, particularly in template and history views. They added models, views, and forms for system settings, enhancing the application's configurability. Furthermore, the user integrated database-backed settings, including Jira and severity naming options, and updated templates to reflect the changes. These efforts significantly improved the application's functionality and maintainability.
pythondjangovulnerability-managementbugbountydefectdojo
patriknordlen/django-DefectDojo
Jul 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:172 commits, 4 PRs, 97 pushes in 8 months
defectdojotracking
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