Aram H.

CEO

Leuven, Flemish Region, Belgium20 yrs 5 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

15 years of experience in application security.
Founder and CEO of a leading cybersecurity firm.
Core contributor to OWASP SAMM project.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity expert with a focus on application security and privacy engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

Application SecurityCybersecurityPrivacy Engineering

Other Skills

Cloud-based ProductsISO27001OWASP SAMMThreat ModelingLINDDUN FrameworkInformation SecurityData PrivacyComputer ScienceSoftware EngineeringJavaComputer SecurityUMLDistributed SystemsMySQLProgramming

About

My name is Aram, and for the past 15 years I’ve been involved in application security as a researcher, industry expert, and core contributor to the OWASP SAMM project. I am the founder and CEO of Codific, a Belgian cybersecurity product firm. At Codific, I work at the intersection of software engineering and application security, helping organizations build secure and reliable systems that protect what matters most. I hold a PhD in application security from DistriNet KU Leuven, which gives me a broad understanding of the security landscape. My work on refining and streamlining the LINDDUN privacy engineering methodology has been incorporated into both ISO and NIST standards. I am also a core contributing member of the OWASP SAMM project, which is the industry standard framework for managing application security programs.

Experience

20 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

10 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Owasp® foundation

Founding Board Member OWASP EU

Jun 2025 – Present · 10 mos

Owasp samm

SAMM Core Team member

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

OWASP SAMM is the Open Web Application Security Project: Software Assurance Maturity Model, it is a methodical and exhaustive approach to organizational maturity in the context of security posture. Being a core contributor I hope to help in making the world a safer place, and to remain at the frontier of application security.

Codific academy

Co-Founder

Apr 2018 – Dec 2023 · 5 yrs 8 mos

Codific Academy is our vision to develop the local ecosystem for software engineering startups in Bourgas city, Bulgaria. The academy has partnered with local companies and both local and foreign universities to improve education and industry alignment.
Providing fast track industry specific training for exceptional talent in the Codific Summer School.

Codific

CEO and Founder

Oct 2011 – Present · 14 yrs 6 mos

Codific is a Belgian cybersecurity firm focused on developing cloud-based products in the healthcare, EdTech and HRTech domains. Codific is an expert in cybersecurity and privacy engineering. We believe in security engineering as an organisational culture, rather than a project- and checklist-based approach.
Codific has an active Application Security programme based on OWASP SAMM. Amongst our AppSec goals for the next 12 months we plan to further refine our Threat Modeling programme, expand OWASP ASVS framework integration into our Videolab and SAMMY products, introduce a more effective code review process with focus on security and try to find an efficient SAST tool.
Codific is ISO27001 certified.

Application SecurityCybersecurityPrivacy EngineeringCloud-based ProductsISO27001

Ku leuven

2 roles

Senior Researcher

Aug 2011 – Jan 2018 · 6 yrs 5 mos · Leuven, BELGIUM

My research at DistriNet, KULeuven was largely scoped within cybersecurity and privacy engineering. I was in charge of streamlining the LINDDUN framework. LINDDUN is a systematic privacy by design methodology. It is part of the ISO 27550 standard on privacy engineering. LINDDUN is a technical privacy impact assessment methodology and it provides a systematic answer to the "technical measures" aspect of the GDPR.

CybersecurityPrivacy EngineeringLINDDUN Framework

PHD Researcher

Oct 2005 – Jul 2011 · 5 yrs 9 mos · Leuven, BELGIUM

My PhD research focuses mainly in two key area's in the software engineering discipline.
I have spent a substantial time in research around model-driven software development where the main focus shifts from programming code to models. I have designed and conducted empirical studies involving human subjects (both students and fellow researchers).