Martin Plattner
Information Security Consultant
Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
Summary
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RockstarMartin Plattner is an Information Security Consultant and software engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience delivering secure, maintainable systems from Innsbruck, Austria. He blends offensive and defensive security expertise with backend engineering, currently consulting at Axians ICT Austria while running his own practice, mplattner.at. An active open-source contributor and GSoC '20 participant, he has made substantive backend contributions to notable projects like mitmproxy—implementing addons such as mapremote/maplocal and refactoring header-modification logic—and to BlockSci, improving blockchain analysis reliability. Martin’s work emphasizes code quality, reproducibility, and practical tooling that helps penetration testers and researchers alike. He pairs deep technical problem solving with clear documentation and a focus on maintainable refactors, making complex security features easier to operate.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (22)
debugging10
debug10
c-language10
python10
http10
bitcoin10
proxy10
bitcoins10
mitmproxy10
blockchain10
cprogramming-language10
scripting9
testing9
data-structure9
tls129
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
citp/BlockSci
Oct 2018 - Apr 2020
A high-performance tool for blockchain science and exploration
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 42 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Martin contributed significantly to the `citp/blocksci` repository, which focuses on blockchain exploration. Their work included adding comments and questions to the code, indicating a focus on understanding and improving the existing codebase. They also addressed specific issues by fixing typos and addressing non-deterministic behavior related to pubkey handling and integrity checks for WITNESS_UNKNOWN scripts. This suggests a role in maintaining code quality and ensuring the correctness of the blockchain analysis tools.
scienceblockchainperformanceblockchain-networkhigh-performance
mitmproxy/mitmproxy
Jun 2020 - Sep 2020
An interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 53 commits, 9 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily contributed to the `mitmproxy` project by working on the `setheaders` and `modifyheaders` addons, refactoring and improving their functionality. They implemented features to remove existing headers and modified the parameter order of the `modifyheaders` addon. Furthermore, the user fixed documentation generation and refactored code for better maintainability. Their work also included the implementation of the `mapremote` and `maplocal` addons, designed to modify request URLs and map local resources.
http-headerpythonsslproxyja3
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