Koen Van Hove
Software Research Engineer at Koenvh
North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolKoen Van Hove is a software research engineer and guest PhD candidate with 11 years of experience specializing in computer networks and distributed systems, currently working at NLnet Labs and the University of Twente. He has a strong security focus demonstrated by hardening RPKI—discovering multiple CVEs, authoring an IETF draft under SIDROPS, and building the rpkiller testbed used to simulate malicious CAs. Koen co-developed DDoSDB to detect and mitigate large-scale attacks and helped operationalize anti-DDoS efforts through the No More DDoS coalition. He combines rigorous academic achievement (BSc/MSc cum laude, master thesis 10/10) with entrepreneurial experience as founder of music-streaming startup Astiga, which he later sold. Pragmatic, research-minded, and experienced across tooling, protocol design, and incident-driven engineering, he thrives on making critical Internet infrastructure more resilient.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Cum laude, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Cum laude at University of TwenteVWO, Natural Sciences, Cum laude, VWO, Natural Sciences, Cum laude at Veluws College Walterbosch
English, Dutch, German
Stackoverflow
89reputation
20kreached
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Github Skills (164)
simulator10
nsd10
rsync10
nameserver10
dyndns10
javascript10
hsm10
x50910
html10
bgp10
x509certificates10
hidden10
ddos10
zeroconf10
mdns10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Koenvh1/WIDM-Exam
Jan 2016 - Mar 2020
Contributions:11 releases, 35 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 3 months
Koenvh1/ETS2-City-Coordinate-Retriever
Mar 2016 - Aug 2022
Grab the coordinates for each city and turn them into usable JSON. Also contains premade JSON files.
Contributions:3 releases, 75 commits, 1 PR in 6 years 5 months
grabfor-eachkaiosjson-filescoordinates
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