Wim Remes
Principal Consultant at Toreon
Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolWim Remes is a principal cyber security consultant and founder with 14+ years of experience helping organizations of all sizes build pragmatic, auditable security programs. Based in Antwerp, he blends hands-on technical work—contributing backend code to well-known vulnerability tooling like cve-search—with leadership roles scaling security services across EMEA as a managing director and operations manager. He founded multiple security consultancies and has served in governance roles including chairman and board member at (ISC)², demonstrating both entrepreneurial drive and sector-wide influence. Wim’s approach emphasizes making cybersecurity practical and repeatable for clients, not just theoretical, and he has a rare mix of deep technical scripting/database experience (Python, pymongo) alongside executive strategy. An early community builder as co-organizer of BruCON, he pairs conference-level thought leadership with day-to-day engineering competence.
14 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
none Sinologie, none Sinologie at KU Leuven
English
Github Skills (8)
database-management10
vulnerabilities10
cve10
mongodb10
python10
mongodb-database10
pymongo10
xml-parsing9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
cve-search/cve-search
May 2012 - Nov 2014
cve-search - a tool to perform local searches for known vulnerabilities
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 1 comment in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Wim primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the CVE search tool. Their commits reveal the development of scripts for database management, including populating and updating the database with vulnerability data from the NVD. They also worked on the search functionality, implementing features to search for vulnerabilities based on product and free-text queries, and formatting output in various formats. The changes involved Python, pymongo, and interaction with external XML feeds.
searchescve-scanningvulnerabilitiescve-searchcve
wimremes/Vesalius
Nov 2012 - Nov 2012
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
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