Kurt Seifried
Chief Innovation Officer
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Summary
🤩
RockstarKurt Seifried is a seasoned information security strategist and chief innovation officer with 11+ years of experience securing cloud and open source ecosystems from his long tenure at the Cloud Security Alliance. He’s a prolific CVE issuer and founding director of the Distributed Weakness Filing Project, blending practical vulnerability triage with governance at scale. Kurt combines hands-on product security work from Red Hat’s security response teams with thought leadership as host of the Open Source Security Podcast and a regular security columnist. Now focused on blockchain and distributed ledger security, he brings a rare mix of applied incident response, standards-level coordination, and community-driven open source stewardship. Based in Edmonton, he’s known for turning complex disclosure processes into practical, federated solutions that empower maintainers and enterprises alike.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
German
Github Skills (200)
automation10
geography10
database-project10
openapi10
webui10
names10
unicode10
typography10
sms10
phone-number10
currency10
code-interpreter10
gemini10
security-vulnerability10
openai10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
distributedweaknessfiling/DWF-consistencychecker
Mar 2016 - Jul 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
distributedweaknessfiling/DWF-Legal-Acceptance
Sep 2016 - Mar 2019
DWF Acceptance of Legal agreements
Contributions:1 PR, 174 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
uidlegalagreementsguidbarrage
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.