Peder Stray

Senior Security Analyst at KraftCERT

Oslo, Norway
email-iconphone-icongithub-logolinkedin-logotwitter-logostackoverflow-logofacebook-logo
Join Prog.AI to see contacts
email-iconphone-icongithub-logolinkedin-logotwitter-logostackoverflow-logofacebook-logo
Join Prog.AI to see contacts

Summary

👤
Senior
🎓
Top School
Peder Stray is a seasoned Senior Security Analyst and systems engineer with 27 years of experience building, administering and hardening Unix environments, databases and networked services from research to commercial settings. He blends deep hands‑on skills in Perl, C, Shell, Python and Java with practical security operations at KraftCERT, and a long history of Linux/Solaris administration and global IT support. His background includes leading systems and application development at the University of Oslo and operational roles in UAV/defense industry IT, giving him a pragmatic view of both research-grade and production infrastructure. An active open-source contributor, he has improved and maintained Irssi scripting tools, demonstrating attention to legacy tooling and community-driven maintenance. Colleagues rely on his rapid bug‑fixing instincts and breadth across protocols, web standards and databases to untangle thorny incidents and deliver robust, maintainable solutions.
code27 years of coding experience
job17 years of employment as a software developer
bookUnfinished Cand. Scient., Computer Science, Unfinished Cand. Scient., Computer Science at Universitetet i Oslo (UiO)
bookCand. Mag., Computer Science, Cand. Mag., Computer Science at University of Oslo
bookMathematics and Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Natural Sciences at Persbråten videregående skole
bookUniversity College London
languagesNorwegian, English, Japanese
github-logo-circle

Github Skills (8)

script10
irssi10
irs10
perl10
maintenance9
regular-expression8
code-optimization7
command-line-interface6

Programming languages (20)

C++JinjaCSSCTeXGoPerlHTML

Github contributions (5)

github-logo-circle
irssi/scripts.irssi.org

Feb 2010 - Aug 2021

Script Repository for Irssi
Role in this project:
userBack-end Developer
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 11 comments in 11 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Peder primarily contributed to the Irssi script repository. Their work included updates and fixes to existing scripts like `log2ansi.pl`, `friends_peder.pl`, `query.pl`, and others. These updates covered code cleanup, improvements in functionality, bug fixes, and the addition of new features. The user's contributions demonstrate an understanding of the Irssi scripting environment and its various functionalities.
irssi
pstray/aoc-input

Dec 2018 - Dec 2022

Input files for the Advent of Code problems
Contributions:620 commits, 1 PR, 225 pushes in 4 years 1 month
problemspython
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.
Request Free Trial