Milan Stute
Member Of The Ad Hoc Working Group On Security Architecture Engineering And Vulnerability Management at Zühlke Group
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
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Top SchoolMilan Stute is a Principal Cybersecurity Consultant based in Frankfurt with 12 years of experience blending research-grade rigor and hands-on engineering to secure connected products and wireless systems. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from TU Darmstadt and has moved between academia and industry—shaping security strategy as a lead expert at ITK and now advising clients at Zühlke. Milan contributes to notable open-source projects such as seemoo-lab’s OpenHaystack and OWL, where his work spans iOS SwiftUI UX improvements and low-level AWDL/WLAN debugging enhancements. He specializes in analyzing, designing, and implementing resilient networked and wireless systems, with practical strengths in backend refactoring, error handling, and testability. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex protocol-level issues into usable product features and reproducible test artifacts.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Technischen Universität DarmstadtComputer Science, Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
German, English, Swedish, French
Github Skills (24)
ios10
python10
wpa10
command-line-interface10
swiftui-app10
c1110
c1710
mapkit10
appleii10
command-line10
apple110
swift10
macos10
apple210
swiftui10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
seemoo-lab/owl
May 2019 - Nov 2020
An open Apple Wireless Direct Link (AWDL) implementation written in C
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 11 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Milan primarily contributed to the OWL project by adding license headers to various source files. They also implemented functionality to allow the WLAN interface to use a pcap file for debugging and testing purposes. Further contributions included fixing issues related to frame handling based on radiotap flags and addressing bugs related to send retries. The user also made improvements to channel availability checks and election tests.
wirelessawdlappleairdroplinux
seemoo-lab/opendrop
May 2019 - Apr 2021
An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 61 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Milan primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the open-source AirDrop implementation. They implemented core features such as setting computer name and model via command-line arguments, removing legacy AirDrop mode code, and removing a dependency on pycrypto. Furthermore, the user refactored the code by migrating from netifaces to ifaddr, added error handling and pypi.org release preparation.
pythonairdropappleawdllinux
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