Niklas Widmer

Overview

CTO at Mosaic Commerce, focused on application security. Shipped 18 launches on the product security team without a rollback. Led the migration of 13 services to SAST. Most at home with AppSec and SAST. I teach a weekend class on AppSec.

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Experience

1. CTO

   Jun 2024 - Present
   Mosaic Commerce · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Zurich, Switzerland
   • Wrote the SAST service that now handles 4 million requests a day.
   • Cut p99 latency on the product security services from 561ms to 133ms.
   • Built the experimentation framework 34 product teams use to ship changes safely.
2. Engineering Manager

   Nov 2020 - Jun 2024
   Nokia · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Zurich, Switzerland
   • Built the experimentation framework 6 product teams use to ship changes safely.
3. Engineering Manager

   Jan 2017 - Aug 2020
   Telefónica · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Zurich, Switzerland
   • Built the experimentation framework 31 product teams use to ship changes safely.
   • Wrote the AppSec service that now handles 34 million requests a day.
4. Senior Security Engineer

   Jan 2014 - Dec 2016
   Adyen · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Zurich, Switzerland
   • Wrote the SAST service that now handles 62 million requests a day.
5. Security Engineer

   Oct 2011 - Jan 2014
   IKEA · 2 yr 3 mo · Contract · Zurich, Switzerland
   • Cut p99 latency on the product security services from 782ms to 88ms.
   • Wrote the AppSec service that now handles 75 million requests a day.

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Education

1. University of Amsterdam

   BSc, Computer Engineering
   2008 - 2011