Gilles Peskine
Staff Security Engineer at ARM
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolGilles Peskine is a Staff Security Engineer at ARM with nine years of professional experience focused on cryptography and secure embedded systems. He is a core contributor to the widely used open-source Mbed TLS library, driving PSA support, code-size reductions, and production-grade error handling. Previously as a software architect at Trustonic he designed major TEE features, led Common Criteria certification efforts, and contributed to GlobalPlatform and TCG working groups. His background combines a PhD in computer science with hands-on implementation of secure storage, communication, and memory management for constrained devices. Based in Paris, he blends academic rigor with practical engineering and a long-standing commitment to improving IoT security through both product work and open-source stewardship. An underappreciated strength is his track record of translating formal security requirements into pragmatic, certifiable system designs.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Université Denis Diderot (Paris VII)École Normale Supérieure
French, English, German
Github Skills (9)
c1710
algorithms10
ps10
c1110
cryptography10
security10
hash-algorithm6
build-automation6
elliptic-curve-cryptography5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Mbed-TLS/mbedtls
Apr 2017 - Jan 2023
An open source, portable, easy to use, readable and flexible TLS library, and reference implementation of the PSA Cryptography API. Releases are on a varying cadence, typically around 3 - 6 months between releases.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5902 reviews, 6211 commits, 2225 PRs in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Gilles was a core contributor to the Mbed TLS library, with a focus on enhancing security and functionality. Their commits primarily revolved around adding new features, such as support for a PSA implementation, and fixing bugs within the existing code. They also performed improvements in code size and introduced more robust error handling in the process of creating a production-grade cryptographic library.
cryptography-libraryapisslcryptographycryptography-api
ARMmbed/mbed-crypto
Jan 2019 - Apr 2022
The development of Mbed Crypto has moved to Mbed TLS. No updates will be made to the mbed-crypto repository anymore.
Contributions:1 review, 86 commits, 200 PRs in 3 years 3 months
cryptographytlsupdatescryptombed
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