Ulf Ahlfors
Head Of R&D at Qlucore
Lund, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolUlf Ahlfors is a seasoned R&D and product leader with nine years of documented industry experience and a multi-decade track record spanning startups, scale-ups and global enterprises across telecom, cloud, SaaS, industrial and bioinformatics domains. Currently Head of R&D at Qlucore in Lund, he has held CTO, VP R&D and global product management roles driving cloud platforms, connected services and digital transformations with hands-on delivery across multiple SCRUM teams. He blends deep technical roots—a PhD in Computer Systems Networking and contributions to secure real-time projects like Cisco’s libsrtp—with strategic skills in budgeting, roadmapping and growing engineering organisations. Ulf is comfortable moving between low-level security engineering and high-level product strategy, having scaled teams from a few developers to 15+ and overseen large outsourcing efforts. Known for pragmatic problem solving and a researcher’s rigor, he brings an academic background and practical security contributions to product-centric R&D leadership.
9 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, PhD, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at The Faculty of Engineering at Lund UniversityPolhem
Swedish, Danish, English, German
Github Skills (5)
c1710
c1110
rtp10
security10
testing8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cisco/libsrtp
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Library for SRTP (Secure Realtime Transport Protocol)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 27 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ulf primarily focused on enhancing the security and functionality of the SRTP library. Their contributions included adding features to set and get the roll-over-counter (ROC), crucial for replay protection and sequence number management. They also refactored code, integrated tests, and addressed issues related to ROC handling, including adding support for setting the ROC before encryption. The user's work significantly improved the library's security and robustness.
securerealtimelibsrtprtpsrtp
ulfolsson/libsrtp
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:7 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
securerealtimesrtptransport
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