Mischa Salle
IT Specialist On Grid Security at NIKHEF
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMischa Salle is an IT specialist focused on grid and Linux security with 12 years of experience applying software development and analysis to distributed computing environments. With a PhD in theoretical physics and a background in numerical simulations, he brings a research-grade approach to hardening grids and clouds and consulting on secure software designs. At NIKHEF he develops and audits security tooling for large-scale infrastructures, drawing on earlier roles managing Linux clusters and performing intensive lattice field theory simulations. He combines low-level C expertise with systems thinking, making him equally comfortable debugging kernel-level issues or shaping architectural security controls. Colleagues benefit from his rare blend of theoretical modelling experience and practical operational security.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
MSc, Physics (Theoretical), MSc, Physics (Theoretical) at University of AmsterdamGoois LyceumPhD, Physics (Theoretical), PhD, Physics (Theoretical) at Universiteit van Amsterdam
English, Dutch, German, French
Github Skills (82)
authentication10
simplesamlphp10
pep10
nativephp10
aix9
idris9
tarball9
saml9
command-line-interface9
encryption9
decryption9
ssl9
cryptography9
grid9
wordpress-plugin9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
msalle/voms
Feb 2015 - Jun 2021
The VOMS service, clients and APIs
Contributions:6 pushes, 8 branches in 6 years 5 months
clientsvoms
rcauth-eu/security-lib
Jan 2017 - Sep 2025
A general repository of code security and building secure applications
Contributions:2 PRs, 50 pushes, 30 branches in 8 years 9 months
securesecuritysecurity-toolscode-security
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