Markus Kilås
Senior Product Architect at Keyfactor
Solna kommun, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolMarkus Kilås is a Senior Product Architect with 17 years of experience specializing in Java, Linux, PKI and open source software, currently shaping product architecture at Keyfactor from Solna, Sweden. He blends deep cryptographic and PKI expertise with hands-on engineering and product ownership—having progressed from PKI specialist to technical lead and product owner roles at PrimeKey. Markus contributes to notable open-source projects like Jitsi, where he improved UI and TLS/certificate displays, reflecting his eye for security usability. His M.Sc. from KTH and a master’s thesis on digital signatures for NFC attest to a long-standing focus on practical cryptography in constrained environments. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex security requirements into deliverable product features and clear developer-facing tools.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Information and Communication Technology, Distributed Systems, M.Sc., Information and Communication Technology, Distributed Systems at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyVästergårdgymnasiet
Github Skills (14)
mtls10
jitsi10
javas10
certificate10
tls1210
cert10
front-end-development10
tls1310
java10
libtls10
xmpp9
audio8
360-video8
ui-design8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jitsi/jitsi
May 2013 - Aug 2014
Jitsi is an audio/video and chat communicator that supports protocols such as SIP, XMPP/Jabber, IRC and many other useful features.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Markus primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the Jitsi application. Their contributions involved fixing UI-related bugs, implementing TLS-related information display within the call information frame, and improving the X509CertificatePanel. The user also made changes to improve the display of certificate details.
xmppxmpp-clientvideojabberirc-server
ebourg/jsign
Mar 2015 - Dec 2022
Java implementation of Microsoft Authenticode for signing Windows executables, installers & scripts
Contributions:13 commits, 15 PRs, 24 comments in 7 years 10 months
signingwindowsinstallersauthenticodeexecutables
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