Security Development
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Name Fredrik Widlund
Address (Sweden) Lundagatan 46, 117 27 Stockholm
Mobile +46-730-******
Email *******.*******@*****.***
Date of birth 1972-08-06
Nationality Swedish
Background Security/Solutions Architect
Personal profile
I am a highly experienced security/solutions architect with a deep as well as broad technical knowledge
together with a very strong background in computer security. I am focused and driven, strive to excel,
and am fast at picking up and sharpening skills.
Throughout my career I have extensively employed my technical knowledge as well as my
understanding of developing business concepts to contribute towards the creation of high-quality
services and products within the Information Technology area. While doing this I have been
continuously acquiring, deepening and broadening my skill sets.
I am a highly creative, dynamic and driven team-player focusing on common goals where prestige and
protecting of one's preserves is of less importance.
Skills profile
Software engineering
Strong focus on programming, privately and professionally, for 25+ years
Strong programming skills in various programming paradigms
o Assembly (MOS 6510/Intel x86)
o Imperative (C)
o Functional (List/Scheme)
o Prototype based (node.js/LUA)
o Object Oriented (C++/JAVA/Ruby/Python)
o Logic (PROLOG)
Extensive experience in distributed computing, network and client/server development
o Development of link layer logic, TCP/IP and various application level protocols
o Network routing (RIP/OSPF/BGP)
o Load balancing (BGP anycast/DNS/Application level/Layer 4)
o OpenMP/MPI/ZeroMQ/RabbitMQ
o Event driven development (epoll/kevent/libev/libuv/node.js)
o ElasticSearch
o Hadoop
Modular development
o Large scale distributed high performance/high availability solutions
o Shared Nothing architecture
o Multitier architecture
o Service oriented/REST hybrid architecture
o Architectural design patterns
Database
o Traditional RDBMS (Microsoft SQL Server/MySQL/PostgreSQL)
o DDBMS (Redis/Couchbase/Riak/MongoDB/Amazon SimpleDB)
Storage
o Distributed parallel fault-tolerant file systems (GlusterFS/HDFS /Amazon S3/Lustre)
o Solid state acceleration architecture
Hardware/Infrastructure
o High bandwidth infrastructure (100+ Gbps aggregated throughput)
o High performance design for optimizing storage I/O, bandwidth and object caching
o Multi-datacenter redundancy design
o Virtualization
Security (15+ years of professional computer security experience)
o Application security design and review
o Secure coding principles
o Penetration testing (White box/Black box/Red team, worked internationally with high
risk enterprises)
o Security toolbox development
o Intrusion detection/Intrusion prevention
o Risk analysis
o ISO 27001
Certified scrum master with 7+ years of project management experience
Leading competence in Sweden in the streaming media segment
o Flash Media Server/Windows Media Services/Microsoft Smooth Streaming/Apple
HLS/Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming/Wowza
Strong experienced in the different phases of the development life cycle
o Concept development
o Requirement analysis
o System analysis and design
o Development
o Testing
o Implementation
o Operation and maintenance
Work experience
M eltwater Group ( 2013 - present )
Senior principal technical architect, responsible for the architecture of the Meltwater big data
platform
Director of Insight solutions, leading a team of engineers and researchers developing business
logic to do big data analysis on new media and social media
O CULUSai ( 2013 - 2013)
Head of development and leading a team of engineers and Ph.D. researchers in doing research
on computer vision and machine learning and developing mobile applications based on the
results
Part of the management board
Leading the development of a computer vision based mobile application for product
recognition in the wild
Scrum master and lead architect/developer
Acquired in 2013 by Meltwater Group
Q brick (2004 – 2 012)
Chief Architect and Head of development in charge of 4 teams of a total of 20 employees, as
well as outsourcing projects
Architect and lead developer of the leading European Content Distribution Network,
Streaming video/radio to end-users all over the world, used by for example SVT, ATG, DN,
Aftonbladet, and many other content owners and media
Architect of the leading European Online Video Platform used for media management,
publishing and video presentation on the web (layered SOA Microsoft .NET/SQL Server
architecture)
Head of the security organization in charge of implementing and maturing ISMS (ISO 27001),
risk assessment, security policies and guidelines
Head of operations 2004–2005, CTO 2005-2007
D efcom (1998 – 2 002)
Co-founder of Defcom, one of the most acknowledged computer security companies to come
out of Sweden
Present in 8 countries in Europe with 150+ employees at its peak
Technical lead in charge of developing and growing computer security know-how
Architect and lead programmer of a highly distributed IDS solution used for the managed IDS
security service
Lead penetration tester working with in high risk environments such as bank and
governmental organizations
Developer of various security related software, such as scanners, intrusion
detection, security layers as well as penetration tools
9 21 Interactive (1997 - 1998)
Co-founder of small company (20 employees) doing web and multimedia development, as
well as computer security consultancy
1 0c Productions (1996 - 1997)
Co-founder of small company (3 employees) doing multimedia development
W IT (1995 – p resent)
Consulting within the computer development/security sector
Education
C omputer Science – U ppsala U niversity 1991-1995
N aturvetenskap – R udbeck G ymnasium 1988-1991
G rundskola 1979-1988
Additional skill
Fluent in English – Worked and lived in London 2000-2002, 2011-2012
Driver’s license type B
Personal interests
Chess
Philosophy
Mathematics and physics
Music
Travelling
Referees
Available on request
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