Michael Yonli
PhD Student Quantum-Safe Cryptanalysis at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMichael Yonli is a PhD student and researcher in quantum-safe cryptanalysis based in Amsterdam with 14 years of hands-on experience across cryptography, hardware, and security engineering. He blends applied R&D—FPGA programming for BLE detection and automating iOS app analysis—with academic work on attacks against searchable encryption, giving him a rare perspective from both systems implementation and adversarial research. An active open-source contributor, he has implemented low-level immutable data structures and HashMap internals for Swift's popular swift-collections library, underscoring expertise in performant data structures and VM-level concerns. His background includes firmware reverse engineering that led to CVEs, practical IDS and Splunk deployments, and early systems automation in the Austrian Armed Forces, illustrating a pragmatic problem-solver who thrives at the intersection of attack techniques and performant system design.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, First Honours, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, First Honours at The University of ManchesterTechnischen Universität DarmstadtReifepruefung, Ausgezeichneter Erfolg(1.29), Reifepruefung, Ausgezeichneter Erfolg(1.29) at Bundesgymnasium Untere Bachgasse
English, German, French
Github Skills (7)
hashtable10
data-structures10
algorithms10
swift10
data-structure10
computer-engineering9
collections9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
apple/swift-collections
Apr 2021 - Sep 2022
Commonly used data structures for Swift
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 177 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Michael's commits primarily involve implementing data structures within the "Capsule" module, which appears to be a collection library for Swift. They focused on adjusting the capacity of a fixed trie and rebinding it to `AnyObject`. Furthermore, the user modified the implementation of the `HashMap`'s internal node representation and iterators. The user made changes to the structure and internal methods in data-structure specific files.
dequesequencedequeuehashcommonly
msteindorfer/swift-collections
Apr 2021 - Sep 2022
A package of production grade Swift data structures
Contributions:29 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 4 months
sequenceswift-packagegradeproduction-gradeswift
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