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Johan Sydseter

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Johan Sydseter

Johan Sydseter led the engineering and ongoing development of the OWASP/cornucopia repository, delivering a robust threat modeling and security standards platform. He architected and maintained features such as CAPEC-ASVS mapping, multi-language support, and automated CI/CD pipelines, using TypeScript, Python, and Svelte. Johan’s work included backend API development, frontend UI/UX improvements, and rigorous configuration management, ensuring traceable risk coverage and reliable deployments. He refactored core modules for maintainability, expanded test coverage, and streamlined release automation. By integrating security best practices and modern DevOps workflows, Johan enabled faster, safer releases and improved auditability, supporting both developer productivity and organizational compliance.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

56%Features

Repository Contributions

665Total
Bugs
148
Commits
665
Features
192
Lines of code
606,384
Activity Months17

Your Network

31 people

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31
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Work History

February 2026

26 Commits • 10 Features

Feb 1, 2026

February 2026 monthly summary for OWASP/cornucopia focusing on security alignment, tooling modernization, and release readiness. Delivered CAPEC pages with mapping to ASVS requirements, restructured ASVS tooling and source organization, expanded the ASVS baseline, and implemented multiple quality fixes to improve reliability and deployment. The work enhances compliance verification, reduces maintenance costs, and accelerates go-to-market with more robust release processes and routing accuracy.

January 2026

63 Commits • 15 Features

Jan 1, 2026

January 2026 performance summary for OWASP/cornucopia focused on delivering security-data mapping capabilities, user-experience improvements, stability, and strong CI. The team advanced mapping, logging, and translation features while reinforcing code quality and deployment reliability. Net effect: improved risk tracing, faster feature delivery, and greater cross-team confidence in maintenance and security posture.

December 2025

9 Commits • 3 Features

Dec 1, 2025

Month: 2025-12. Highlights include security threat modeling consolidation for Copi and Cornucopia, ASVS-CAPEC mappings enhancements for authorization and cryptography, UI overset fix in Cornucopia, and YAML formatting cleanup to ensure valid configuration. These deliverables strengthen threat coverage, reduce deployment risk, improve developer UX, and maintain configuration quality.

November 2025

2 Commits • 1 Features

Nov 1, 2025

November 2025 performance summary for the OWASP/cornucopia project focused on strengthening security standards alignment and maintainability. Key mappings were refined to improve coverage with OWASP ASVS and ensure clearer traceability of changes, while a simple YAML readability cleanup improved configuration clarity without altering behavior.

October 2025

47 Commits • 15 Features

Oct 1, 2025

October 2025 — OWASP/cornucopia: Delivered major frontend architecture improvements, enhanced mobile UX, and localization readiness, while tightening security and content quality. Work spanned architecture, UI, build/CI, threat modeling, and editorial improvements, delivering business value through faster release readiness, improved user experience, and stronger security posture.

September 2025

65 Commits • 21 Features

Sep 1, 2025

September 2025 (OWASP/cornucopia) delivered a stronger security coverage posture, release readiness for version 2.2, and a set of quality improvements across CI, licensing, and content. Key outcomes include expanded threat coverage, improved automation in CI, and a cleaner codebase and UI/UX polish that collectively raise the product’s risk management capabilities and business value.

August 2025

23 Commits • 13 Features

Aug 1, 2025

August 2025 monthly summary for OWASP/cornucopia: Delivered significant security content updates and CI/CD improvements that strengthen threat modeling capabilities, accelerate ASVS 3.0 migration readiness, and pave the way for ASVS 5.0 alignment. Implemented robust build stability, removed legacy issues, and updated documentation and templates to reflect the latest security standards. Result: faster secure releases, improved auditability, and clearer guidance for developers and security teams.

June 2025

54 Commits • 18 Features

Jun 1, 2025

June 2025 (2025-06) monthly summary for OWASP/cornucopia focusing on delivering customer-value features, strengthening localization and typings, and hardening CI/CD processes. The month balanced gameplay enhancements with quality-of-life improvements, asset completeness, and robust release automation to enable faster, safer releases and broader audience reach.

May 2025

87 Commits • 22 Features

May 1, 2025

May 2025 performance summary for OWASP/cornucopia: Delivered end-to-end deployment and configuration enhancements, improved security posture, and reinforced production readiness. Key features include: (1) Heroku deployment and buildpack support with subdir builds and host-name configuration, enabled by a series of buildpack configuration commits; (2) Production deployment optimization with production compile options and scaffolding, plus production deploy configuration changes to streamline releases; (3) CLI/command rearrangement to clarify configuration and reduce maintenance overhead; (4) Expanded deployment/docs support and IPv4 readiness, including domain/SSL deployment documentation and Fly/Cloudflare deployment guidance; (5) Debugging and authentication stabilization to improve reliability of the user and admin flows.

April 2025

11 Commits • 1 Features

Apr 1, 2025

April 2025 performance summary for OWASP/cornucopia: Delivered Copi CI/CD Pipeline Enhancements and Security Hardening for copi.owasp.org, including a new CI job, environment upgrades, broader branch triggers, correct working directory, secure credentials handling, and pinned action versions to reduce build brittleness. Implemented security and correctness fixes in tests and templates: removal of hardcoded secrets, environment-variable secrets sourcing, and correction of template naming and error view to align with standard HTTP status codes. Overall impact: more reliable CI pipelines, reduced security risk, and improved test fidelity, enabling faster, safer iterations. Technologies/skills demonstrated: GitHub Actions, CI/CD design, secret management, environment configuration, test/template hardening, and secure coding practices.

March 2025

13 Commits • 3 Features

Mar 1, 2025

March 2025 monthly highlights for OWASP/cornucopia: Delivered UI polish, localization enhancements, and expanded security documentation and test coverage. Focused on readability, accessibility, localization coverage, and security compliance to improve user experience, developer productivity, and governance.

February 2025

108 Commits • 33 Features

Feb 1, 2025

February 2025 monthly summary for OWASP/cornucopia: Delivered significant CI/CD improvements, release readiness, content localization, and reliability enhancements that collectively improved build stability, release cadence, and user experience across the site and decks data workflow.

January 2025

92 Commits • 15 Features

Jan 1, 2025

January 2025 performance recap for OWASP/cornucopia: Delivered user-centric UX improvements, hardened security posture, and strengthened deployment automation. The work reinforced accessibility for JS-disabled users, improved UI reliability, and accelerated deployment cycles, delivering measurable business value and maintainable code. Highlights include secure-by-default front-end changes, deployment pipeline enhancements, and maintainable refactors across UI and markup.

December 2024

6 Commits • 2 Features

Dec 1, 2024

December 2024 monthly summary for the OWASP/cornucopia repository. Focused on improving user-facing content, navigation, branding integrity, and localization readiness to enhance discoverability, user experience, and maintainability across devices and languages.

November 2024

41 Commits • 12 Features

Nov 1, 2024

Concise monthly summary for 2024-11: Delivery focused on stability, maintainability, and user-facing improvements across OWASP/cornucopia. Core stability achieved through targeted bug fixes and test reliability enhancements. Mobile UX and internationalization capabilities expanded to enable broader adoption and multi-language support. Coding standards and configuration hygiene improved to reduce future risk and simplify onboarding. Documentation and UI updates augmented product clarity and developer productivity.

October 2024

8 Commits • 3 Features

Oct 1, 2024

October 2024 performance summary for OWASP/cornucopia: Delivered localization improvements (Italian and Portuguese), improved contributor attribution, and upgraded CI/CD infrastructure to enhance security and maintainability. These changes increase product reach, reduce build risk, and set a foundation for faster, more reliable releases.

September 2024

10 Commits • 5 Features

Sep 1, 2024

Month: 2024-09 — focused on delivering the CORNUCOPIA card, strengthening security alignment, enabling QR-based authentication flows, and improving test reliability and build quality. Key work included implementing the CORNUCOPIA Card Feature with prerendering for fast serving; refactoring security mappings with MappingController and CardController to improve maintainability and ASVS alignment; adding QR Code Endpoints for authentication and data validation; and introducing a Mock DeckService to stabilize tests. Ancillary improvements included prerender/config updates, accessibility fixes, and dependency upgrades to reduce risk. Overall, this period delivered faster rendering, stronger security posture, more robust testing, and healthier CI.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness90.8%
Maintainability90.8%
Architecture87.0%
Performance86.0%
AI Usage20.6%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

AIBashCSSDockerfileElixirGit IgnoreHEEXHTMLIDMLJSON

Technical Skills

API DevelopmentAPI IntegrationAPI developmentAPI integrationASVS complianceAsset ManagementBack End DevelopmentBackend DevelopmentBrandingBuild AutomationBuild ConfigurationBuild ProcessBuild Process OptimizationBuild ScriptingBuild System

Repositories Contributed To

1 repo

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OWASP/cornucopia

Sep 2024 Feb 2026
17 Months active

Languages Used

JavaScriptMarkdownTypeScriptYAMLPythonCSSHTMLJSON

Technical Skills

API developmentAPI integrationJavaScript developmentNode.jsOWASP standardsSvelte