Risto Helinko
Senior Security Engineer at Crayon
Finland
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Top SchoolRisto Helinko is a Senior Security Engineer based in Finland with a software-generalist mindset and about three years of professional security-focused experience, currently building cloud-native managed security services at Crayon. He combines hands-on engineering and ops, having secured AWS environments and developed detection/response playbooks at Telia’s Global SOC and maintained incident and vulnerability platforms. His background spans functional programming and compilers to full‑stack web development and test automation, and he applies that broad technical lens to cloud and application security problems. An avid tinkerer, he runs privacy-focused NixOS setups and experiments with Android ROMs (LineageOS, postmarketOS), reflecting a practical privacy-by-design ethos. Trained in cloud security and DevOps automation (SANS SEC540), he blends rigorous theoretical interest with pragmatic, production-ready controls.
3 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Information Technology, Master's Degree, Information Technology at Tampere University of Technology 1965-2018Bachelor's Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Mechanical Engineering at Tampere University of TechnologySEC540: Cloud Security and DevOps Automation, SEC540: Cloud Security and DevOps Automation at SANS
English, Finnish
Github Skills (7)
cve5
security4
vulnerability4
vulnerabilities3
database3
security-vulnerability2
sca2
Github contributions (3)
rhelinko-telia/iac
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
rhelinko-telia/TheHive
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
TheHive: a Scalable, Open Source and Free Security Incident Response Platform
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
scalablecortexincident-responsesecurity-incident-responsesecurity
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