Karl Voit
Security And Compliance at Research Industrial Systems Engineering (RISE)
Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolKarl Voit is a security and compliance specialist with 15 years of experience bridging research, education, and enterprise IT across Austria. Currently at RISE, he combines hands-on security management with compliance processes informed by prior roles as Certification Manager and Security Manager at Detego and enterprise software engineering at BearingPoint. He has a strong academic background—PhD and MS from Graz University of Technology—and a long history of teaching Personal Information Management at multiple universities. An early adopter of Emacs and Org mode, his open-source contributions include back-end tooling for memacs that turn diverse data sources into organized Org entries, reflecting a practical obsession with personal information workflows. He’s also run IT modernization programs and trained teams in open-source tooling and security, showing a knack for translating technical detail into usable systems. Reachable primarily by email, he curates a personal site (Karl-Voit.at) that reflects his preference for lightweight, reproducible tooling over social media.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Graz University of Technology
Github Skills (11)
regular-expression10
python10
text-processing9
fileio9
emacs9
filesystem9
datetime9
e-mail8
send-email8
sendmail8
org-mode7
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
novoid/Memacs
Jul 2011 - Aug 2022
What did I do on February 14th 2007? Visualize your (digital) life in Org-mode
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:284 commits, 48 PRs, 100 pushes in 11 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Karl contributed to the `memacs` project by implementing and improving Python scripts focused on extracting and formatting data from various sources, including file timestamps, mbox files, and easybank.at bank statements, into Org mode entries for use in the Emacs editor. These contributions included the development of new modules and functionalities, such as the generation of a Nexus file for emails and newsgroup postings, and improving the processing and presentation of data within the project's Org mode output format. The user also fixed issues related to format, added features for newsgroup postings, and incorporated contact information to the entries.
personal-information-managementpythondidquantified-selfvisualize
novoid/jira2org-story.py
May 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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