Matjaz Rihtar
Cyber Security Specialist (SIGOV-CERT) at Urad Vlade Republike Slovenije za informacijsko varnost
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Summary
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SeniorMatjaz Rihtar is a cyber security specialist with 12+ years of experience bridging information and network security, SOC operations, and software engineering across government and research institutions. Currently at SIGOV-CERT in Slovenia, he combines hands-on incident response and threat intelligence work with a background managing AI projects at the Jozef Stefan Institute. He is a pragmatic programmer who contributes to prominent open-source tooling like MISP, improving CLI usability and server-side models for a widely used threat-sharing platform. Comfortable across languages and OSes, he excels at turning complex requirements into practical, auditable solutions and enjoys applying AI in operational security contexts.
12 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
English, German, Croatian, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
command-line-interface10
php10
msp10
backend10
back-end-development10
command-line10
cli10
cybersecurity9
information-security9
phpunit7
automation6
automations6
git5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
MISP/MISP
Mar 2021 - Aug 2021
MISP (core software) - Open Source Threat Intelligence and Sharing Platform
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Matjaz primarily focused on improving and expanding the command-line interface (CLI) functionality of the MISP platform. Their contributions involved enhancing help messages and usage instructions across multiple command-line tools, addressing issues in core modules like `AdminShell` and `EventShell`. They also made adjustments to tests and refined the code in the `Server` model, demonstrating an understanding of the platform's administrative and event management features.
bugbountythreat-analysisctifraud-preventionsharing
mrihtar/GeoCoordinateConverter
Jan 2015 - Jan 2019
Contributions:10 releases, 99 commits, 2 PRs in 4 years 1 month
sloveniacoordinategeographicconverter
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