Saul Johnson
Chief AI Researcher at BreachLock Inc
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSaul Johnson is a cybersecurity executive and Chief AI Researcher based in Amsterdam with 12 years of hands-on experience bridging offensive security, AI/ML and software engineering. He holds a PhD in information security and has led AI programmes, pentesting teams and engineering functions at BreachLock, while co-founding and technically steering a B2B SaaS startup focused on workplace wellbeing. Saul’s research blends academic rigor with practical impact—recent work examined deceptive uses of generative AI in maritime cybersecurity and he’s delivered workshops across Europe to harden organisations against emerging AI threats. Equally comfortable writing production systems and mentoring teams, he has a track record of translating research prototypes into deployable platforms and building privacy-preserving, human-first analytics.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Teesside University
English, Chinese, Dutch
Github Skills (89)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
security-breachlock/vuln-vects
Aug 2021 - Jun 2022
A powerful, flexible CVSS parser, calculator and validator written for JavaScript/TypeScript.
Contributions:1 release, 23 commits, 19 pushes in 11 months
javascriptparsertypescript
cognesence/matcher
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
A fully-featured symbolic pattern matcher for Clojure.
Contributions:3 releases, 33 commits, 29 pushes in 3 months
clojuresymbolicpattern-matchingmatcher
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