About Up Secure

Expert in legal and technical aspects of cybersecurity, privacy protection, privacy engineering, security engineering, and software engineering with over 10 years of experience in Python (Django) applications and 6 years in compliance and security auditing, education, risk management, and leadership. Currently a PhD candidate researching privacy and data protection by design under the GDPR regime. I have authored over 10 publications on privacy and software engineering aspects of data protection and participated as a speaker at multiple conferences. A list of conference talks and publications is available at https://upsecure.com/about/

We equip organizations with security services, compliance audits, privacy engineering, and SaaS tools to raise their data protection maturity. Our goal is to bridge the gap between legal requirements and technical implementation so businesses can operate securely by design.

Up Secure was founded in 2016 to solve a problem I kept seeing: companies were getting security advice from people who didn’t understand their code, and legal advice from people who didn’t understand their infrastructure. The gap between law and engineering was where the real risks lived.

I started by building GDPR App — a SaaS platform for Data Protection Officers — because I wanted to prove that compliance tools could be built by someone who understood both sides. That led to consulting, then audits, then training, and eventually a full-service practice covering cybersecurity, privacy engineering, and AI compliance.

Today, Up Secure helps SaaS teams across Europe and the US build secure, compliant products — from SDLC security audits and penetration testing to GDPR, NIS 2, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and EU AI Act advisory. Every engagement is led by someone who reads both the codebase and the regulations.