Fabian Affolter
Senior Security Analyst at Affolter Engineering
Leidersbach, Bavaria, Germany
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Fabian Affolter is a senior security analyst and seasoned engineer with 17 years of experience blending security testing, systems engineering, and release automation across open-source and commercial projects. He maintains critical packages for NixOS, Alpine Linux and Fedora, and contributes to widely used projects like Home Assistant and CircuitPython—bringing both low-level embedded support and user-facing frontend improvements. As a long-time Home Assistant developer he designed core components and much of the initial documentation, while at audius he applies that pragmatic, security-first mindset to production systems. Fabian’s work spans the full stack from hardware pin mappings on microcontrollers to network reconnaissance tooling and automated OS installer maintenance, reflecting an uncommon mix of mechanical engineering roots and modern IT security expertise. He’s also active in community-building efforts, having founded openwireless.ch and helped shape Fedora’s Security Lab and event ecosystem.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Mechanical engineering, Mechanical engineering at Gewerblich-Industrielle Berufsschule BernB. Sc., Mechanical Engineering - Physics and FEM, B. Sc., Mechanical Engineering - Physics and FEM at Berne University of Applied Sciences - School of Engineering and Information TechnologyGeneral education, General education at Gewerblich-Industrielle Berufsschule Bern - BMSHF, Mechanical engineering, HF, Mechanical engineering at TEKO Bern
German, German, English, French
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Github Skills (80)
penetration-testing10
python10
network-analysis10
image-processing10
integrations10
dns10
s210
boot10
crawler10
esp3210
embedded10
home-assistant10
installers10
javascript10
polymer10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
netbootxyz/netboot.xyz
Nov 2017 - May 2019
Your favorite operating systems in one place. A network-based bootable operating system installer based on iPXE.
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:45 commits, 40 PRs, 9 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Fabian primarily contributed to updating and maintaining the netboot.xyz project by upgrading various operating system installers and utilities. These updates involved modifying configuration files (iPXE scripts) to reflect the latest versions and releases of operating systems like Arch Linux, Antergos, CentOS, Debian, and Kali Linux. This included adding new versions and removing outdated ones. The user also added a new utility.
operating-systemspxebootbiosmenubootloader
fabaff/fsl-test-bench
Apr 2013 - Jan 2023
FSL Test bench - Ansible playbook repository to setup a save environment for security auditing and testing. It can be used for teaching security testing methodologies, testing tools, learning, and playing.
Contributions:1056 commits, 1 PR, 139 pushes in 9 years 11 months
fslteachingsecurityansiblesecurity-testing
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