Nicolae Paladi
CEO & Co-Founder at Lund University
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolNicolae Paladi is a CEO and co-founder with 11 years of experience at the intersection of computer security, trusted computing, and distributed systems, currently leading CanaryBit to deliver cloud infrastructure security and Confidential AI solutions. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Lund University and has combined academic research (postdoc and affiliated researcher roles) with industrial R&D at RISE and collaborations with Ericsson, translating cutting-edge trusted execution and confidential computing research into standards, patents, and technology transfer. Nicolae has led EU-funded projects, contributed to OpenStack, and built teams that bridge research and productization—skills that inform his hands-on leadership of a security-focused startup. Based in Stockholm, he pairs deep cryptography and systems expertise with practical experience in transaction systems from earlier engineering roles at Klarna and entrepreneurial founding of consumer and enterprise ventures. A less obvious strength is his track record of influencing ecosystem-level efforts (IETF contributions and meetups) to shape how secure cloud and AI platforms are built and adopted.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Information Security, Master of Science - MS Information Security at Luleå University of Technology Doctor of Engineering - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Engineering - PhD Computer Science at Lund UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Gothenburg
French, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, English
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Github Skills (64)
storage10
amazon-s310
threat-model9
k8s9
api8
go8
object-storage8
cloud-object-storage8
kubernetes8
debugging8
api-client8
subset7
json7
confidential7
integrity7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
aeternity/aetmodel
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
Documentation of threat model
Contributions:61 commits, 1 PR, 14 pushes in 17 days
securitythreatthreat-model
ThomasArts/aetmodel
Jul 2018 - Dec 2023
Documentation of threat model
Contributions:2 pushes in 5 years 5 months
threat-modelsecuritycybersecuritythreatcyber-security
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