Milosch Meriac
Senior Director Signals, Electronics & Acoustics at Technology Innovation Institute
Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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SeniorMilosch Meriac is a senior technology leader with 23 years of experience designing secure hardware, embedded software, RF localization and acoustics systems, currently leading Signals, Electronics & Acoustics at the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi. He combines hands-on expertise in ultra-low-power wireless devices, GNSS/RF jammer localizers, beamforming and hydroacoustics with a deep background in IoT and embedded security from his time leading Arm’s research security efforts. His work on ARMmbed uVisor and contributions to Mbed OS demonstrate practical mastery of secure enclave-like mechanisms for constrained microcontrollers. A serial open-hardware contributor and co-founder of projects like OpenBeacon and OpenPCD, he has used research-grade tools to expose real-world RFID and IoT vulnerabilities, including practical attacks on MIFARE Classic and HID iCLASS. He also helped breach the original Xbox to enable the first Linux port, reflecting a long-standing commitment to security research and responsible disclosure. Based in the UAE, he blends productization experience with blue-sky research to move novel RF and acoustic systems from prototype to operational deployments.
23 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
German, English, French, Slovak
Github Skills (14)
c1710
mbed10
iot10
embedded10
mbedtls10
c1110
sys10
iot-devkit10
security10
rtos9
memory-management9
c-language8
cprogramming-language8
assembly7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ARMmbed/mbed-os
Apr 2016 - Sep 2016
Arm Mbed OS is a platform operating system designed for the internet of things
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 7 PRs, 31 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Milosch contributed to the uVisor security framework within the Arm Mbed OS project. Their work focused on integrating uVisor, introducing new API features for register gateway access and box initialization. Key changes included adding new APIs and modifying existing ones, with specific adaptations for various target platforms, including STM32F4 and K64F. The commits demonstrate expertise in secure systems and memory management.
kernelmbed-osoperating-systemlinuxmbed
meriac/openbeacon
Sep 2010 - Apr 2018
Contributions:991 commits, 6 pushes, 3 tags in 7 years 8 months
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