Victor Gevers
Chief Executive Officer at Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolVictor Gevers is a cybersecurity executive and serial founder with over eight years of formal experience leading vulnerability disclosure, incident response, and innovation programs across Dutch government and nonprofit sectors. He currently serves as CEO of DIVD.works and CSIRT.global while steering technology and education initiatives as CTO of DIVD Academy, blending strategic leadership with hands-on security research. Victor co-founded the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure and has a long track record of translating ethical hacking into policy, advocacy and large-scale public-private collaborations. His background as an IT security architect and government innovation manager gives him rare expertise in building secure, sovereign digital workspaces using open-source and European components. A practitioner since the late 1990s, he still conducts independent security research and champions free cybersecurity education, combining grassroots community building with executive governance. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic innovator who prefers challenging existing assumptions over chasing the flashiest idea.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
DIVD AcademyGIAC Certified Incident Handler, SEC504: Hacker Techniques, Exploits and Incident Handling, GIAC Certified Incident Handler, SEC504: Hacker Techniques, Exploits and Incident Handling at SANS InstituteUiPath 2023 - Level 1 RPA Developer, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, UiPath 2023 - Level 1 RPA Developer, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Udemy
Github Skills (7)
javascript4
css4
react4
gdi3
nextjs3
foundation2
internet2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
SSC-ICT-Innovatie/ssc-ict-innovatie.nl
Oct 2018 - Jun 2019
Website of the SSC-ICT Innovation team
Contributions:6 PRs, 103 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
reactsscictcssjavascript
SSC-ICT-Innovatie/hnnw
May 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:21 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
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