Philip Å
Principal Secure Development Consultant at Truesec
Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilip Å is a Principal Secure Development Consultant with 15 years of hands-on experience building and breaking secure systems, specializing in embedded systems, hardware security, secure development and application security. Based in Malmö, Sweden, he has progressed through senior engineering roles at Truesec since 2013 and now leads secure development consultancy work with a strong emphasis on pragmatic, testable security for constrained devices. His background in MSc Engineering Physics gives him deep technical grounding that he applies to both offensive research and defensive design, often bridging firmware, hardware and software layers. He prefers long-term product security challenges over short engagements or corporate compliance work, and avoids crypto/Web3 projects. Known for pairing careful threat modeling with exploit-driven validation, he brings a rare blend of rigorous engineering discipline and hands-on adversarial mindset.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Engineering Physics, MSc Engineering Physics at The Faculty of Engineering at Lund University
English, Swedish
Github Skills (31)
compiler8
zig8
gtkwave8
toolchain8
avr-gcc8
interpreter8
simavr7
programming-language7
bugzilla7
api7
django7
mozilla7
embedded6
python6
simulator6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pakesson/packer-templates
Sep 2016 - Nov 2021
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
pakesson/.dotfiles
Feb 2011 - Aug 2017
Contributions:28 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
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