Anna Westelius

CTO

San Francisco, California, United States18 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Proven leader in security strategy and team building.
Extensive experience in managing security operations.
Passionate about community engagement in tech.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in Information Security with a focus on strategic management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Information Security ManagementSecurity

Other Skills

IDSComputer SecurityNetwork SecurityData AnalysisSecurity AnalysisWeb Application Security

About

Scandinavian expat and former Security Researcher, Analyst & hacking enthusiast turned technology strategist and security leader. Occasional public speaker. Passionate about solving big, complex, problems and build inclusive, motivated, and successful teams.

Experience

18 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Netflix

4 roles

Sr Director; Head of Security, Privacy, & Assurance

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo

Information Security ManagementSecurity

Sr Director, Security Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2024 – Apr 2025 · 1 yr

Information Security ManagementSecurity

Director, Security Engineering

May 2022 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos

Information Security ManagementSecurity

Director, Security Services Engineering

Feb 2021 – May 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

Information Security ManagementSecurity

Cruise

Senior Engineering Manager, Security Products

Nov 2019 – Feb 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Security

Arkose labs

Senior Director Of Engineering

May 2018 – Sep 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Led engineering- and Machine Learning- organization building and improving on product efficacy for Arkose Labs, fighting fraud and abuse problems at scale.

Security

Distil networks

2 roles

Sr Director of Security Research

Oct 2017 – May 2018 · 7 mos

Security

Sr Director of Engineering, HTS

Jan 2016 – May 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos

As the Director of engineering (High touch/Professional Services), I managed a global team of security analysts, collaborating on improving the product.

Security

Kodcentrum

Board Member

Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 · 1 yr · Greater Stockholm Metropolitan Area

Kodcentrum is a non-profit association that introduces children to programming and digital creation free of charge. Through our business areas Kodstugor (coding events), Barnhack (child hacks), Koda i skolan (coding in school) and Kodboken.se, we strengthen the digital democracy, broaden the image of who is programming and things built up of code.
www.kodcentrum.se

Sentor mss ab

3 roles

Head of Security Operations Center

Jun 2012 – Jan 2015 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Headed the Security Operations Center (SOC) at Sentor. Managed security operators and analysts who monitored large sets of customers, 24/7.

Head of Service Delivery, ScrapeSentry

Promoted

May 2012 – Jan 2016 · 3 yrs 8 mos

Sr. Security Analyst

Apr 2010 – Jun 2012 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Sec-t conference

Core Organizer

Oct 2011 – Oct 2021 · 10 yrs · Stockholm

A security conference in the heart of Stockholm since 2008. We offer 2 days of conference, 2 days of trainings, a hugely appreciated club night (in collab with SYNTAX ERROR) and a community night!
SEC-T is an affordable, non-profit, English speaking, two day, single track information security/hacking conference taking place in late summer every year in Stockholm, Sweden. We focus on providing our audience with high quality talks and in depth “QnA” with speakers. SEC-T is a conference where you can feel safe from sales pitches and marketing presentations as we have a large focus on our speakers research and first person accounts.

The imaginary file format hb

Founder & Technologist

Jan 2008 – Jul 2014 · 6 yrs 6 mos · Greater Stockholm Metropolitan Area

The imaginary file format (TIFF) was a design- and Web- bureau that helped establish smaller businesses online through tailored web development as well as provide graphics design services to larger enterprises and some consumer targeted printed goods.