Martin Paljak
Chief Cyberpunk at Fidesmo
Tartu, Estonia
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Top SchoolMartin Paljak is a pragmatic cybersecurity engineer and founder with 21 years of hands-on experience designing and securing eID, smart card, HSM and PKI systems for governments and global clients. As Chief Cyberpunk of Kyberpunk LLC and contributor/maintainer of the widely used OpenSC smart-card middleware, he blends low-level reversing and embedded development with high-level architecture and process improvement for small engineering teams. He has led incident response and large-scale eID upgrades (including ROCA mitigation) at Estonia's InfoSys Authority and now shapes secure provisioning and system architecture at Fidesmo and Coop Pank. Known for extracting core customer needs and driving pragmatic, standards-based solutions, he pairs an INTJ strategist’s clarity with the willingness to “get his hands dirty” from binary to Lisp.
20 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MHGNRG
Estonian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
smartcard10
c1710
pkcs10
c1110
security10
applet9
openpgp9
c-programming8
java6
pcsc6
linux6
javacard6
globalplatform6
cryptography6
cross-browser6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
OpenSC/OpenSC
Jun 2011 - May 2019
Open source smart card tools and middleware. PKCS#11/MiniDriver/Tokend
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 88 commits, 23 PRs in 8 years
Contributions summary:Martin primarily contributed to the OpenSC project, focusing on smart card tools and middleware development. Their commits involved integrating and updating various card drivers, particularly for EstEID cards and OpenPGP, which included modifications to card initialization, security environment setup, and signature computations. Furthermore, the user addressed security aspects by normalizing error handling and addressing potential vulnerabilities in PCSC-based reader interactions, improving the overall robustness of the software.
pkcs11golangsmartcardsecuritytokend
martinpaljak/esteid.js
Mar 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:33 commits, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
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