Stephan Heffner
Information Security Professional
Greater Hamburg Area Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolStephan Heffner is an information security professional with 11+ years of experience at DER SPIEGEL, evolving from senior software engineer and IT specialist for investigative journalism into a security-focused role that bridges journalism and technology. He designs and secures software architectures for high-stakes media environments, applying a pragmatic engineering background that stretches back to research software development at Helmholtz and enterprise consulting. Based in the Greater Hamburg Area, he brings deep institutional knowledge of newsroom workflows and a proven ability to translate investigative needs into secure, auditable systems. Outside his day job he has supported investigative journalism and human-rights projects, demonstrating a commitment to public-interest technology beyond typical corporate security duties.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Chemie, Chemie at TU BraunschweigChemisch Technischer Assistent, Chemisch Technischer Assistent at Dr. von Morgenstern Schulen, Braunschweig
English, German
Github Skills (64)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
salevajo/node
Mar 2019 - Feb 2021
Scripts to run a dockerized liquid node
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
node-jsliquiddockernodejsdockerized
salevajo/homebrew-cask
Dec 2019 - Jun 2022
🍻 A CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries
Contributions:15 pushes in 2 years 6 months
cliworkflowdistributed-applicationsadministrationbinaries
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