Mikal Villa
DevSecOps Engineer at Redpill Linpro - Provider of professional Open Source services and products
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolMikal Villa is a DevSecOps engineer and security-focused systems architect based in Oslo with 13 years of hands-on experience building privacy-preserving and resilient platforms. He contributes to core I2P development—working on the router, cryptography, and a maintained Firefox LTS fork—and blends low-level C/C++ and assembly work with macOS (Swift/Objective-C) and Elixir for higher-level services. His recent roles span DevSecOps, identity and access management, and platform security for microservice environments using technologies like Docker, Keycloak, OpenShift, and Go. Mikal pairs day-job discipline with a curious, rebellious streak that fuels evening projects in firmware/UEFI research, malware analysis and exploit development. An autodidact with formal programming studies, he’s known for pragmatic security improvements (e.g., UPnP and HTTP enhancements in i2pd) and solving hard integration and architecture problems across open-source and commercial settings.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Programming, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Programming at Høgskolen i Ålesund (HiÅ)Learning basic it, Basic Computer Skills, Learning basic it, Basic Computer Skills at Akademiet
Norwegian, English
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Github Skills (27)
c-language10
anonymity10
network-programming10
java10
security10
javas10
cryptography10
cprogramming-language10
p2p10
ssl9
intellij-idea9
cmake9
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
i2p/i2p.i2p
Aug 2012 - Feb 2020
I2P is an anonymizing network, offering a simple layer that identity-sensitive applications can use to securely communicate. All data is wrapped with several layers of encryption, and the network is both distributed and dynamic, with no trusted parties.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:234 commits, 4 tags in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Mikal contributed to the I2P anonymizing network by fixing bugs, adding new reseed hosts, and improving the handling of network database operations. Their work involved modifying Java code related to SSL, reseed configurations, and the underlying network transports. The user also addressed issues in the client-side naming service, demonstrating a focus on maintaining and improving the core functionality of the I2P router.
wrappedidentitytrustedcommunicatesensitive
PurpleI2P/i2pd
Apr 2014 - Feb 2018
🛡 I2P: End-to-End encrypted and anonymous Internet
Role in this project:Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:49 commits, 12 PRs, 18 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Mikal contributed to the I2P project by implementing various enhancements and bug fixes. They improved the build process by adding support for Mac OSX and including necessary libraries. They added support for POST and PUT requests, as well as incorporating a timestamp in the logger. Furthermore, the user worked on integrating the miniupnpc library for UPnP functionality, enhancing the network configuration and security aspects of the I2P daemon.
cryptographyi2p-clientend-to-endprivacyp2p
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