Peder Stray
Senior Security Analyst at KraftCERT
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolPeder 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.
27 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Unfinished Cand. Scient., Computer Science, Unfinished Cand. Scient., Computer Science at Universitetet i Oslo (UiO)Cand. Mag., Computer Science, Cand. Mag., Computer Science at University of OsloMathematics and Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Natural Sciences at Persbråten videregående skoleUniversity College London
Norwegian, English, Japanese
Github Skills (8)
script10
irssi10
irs10
perl10
maintenance9
regular-expression8
code-optimization7
command-line-interface6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
irssi/scripts.irssi.org
Feb 2010 - Aug 2021
Script Repository for Irssi
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions: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
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