Steven Wierckx
Teamlead & Security Consultant at Toreon
Rotselaar, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolSteven Wierckx is a seasoned security-focused technology leader with nine years in product security and a software testing background stretching back to the late 1990s. As Teamlead & Security Consultant at Toreon he coaches threat modeling, leads a product security team, and shapes secure development lifecycles for web and mobile applications. He combines hands-on penetration and security testing experience with roles as trainer, technical writer, and hackathon chief judge, reflecting a blend of practitioner depth and community engagement. His career path from Java development and test automation to security product ownership gives him a pragmatic, tool-oriented approach to secure coding and threat modeling. Based in Rotselaar, Belgium, he’s known for translating complex security concepts into actionable practices for engineering teams. An interesting but less obvious detail: alongside consulting he has longstanding experience reviewing and producing technical content, which sharpens his ability to communicate risk to both technical and non-technical audiences.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Informatics, Bachelor, Informatics at Katholieke Hogeschool Leuven
Dutch, English, French, German, Japanese
Github Skills (15)
security10
owasp9
cybersecurity9
laravel7
application-security7
php7
vulnerabilities6
collaboration6
documentation5
cms4
open-source4
threat-model2
node-application2
maturity1
nodejs1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
swierckx/oss2019
Feb 2019 - Jun 2019
Open Security Summit 2019
Contributions:58 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
securitysummit
swierckx/oss2018
Mar 2018 - Jun 2018
Open Security Summit 2018
Contributions:47 pushes in 2 months
securitysummit
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