Summary
Ondřej Staníček is a hardware security PhD student and practitioner based in Prague with eight years of experience focused on embedded and physical-layer security. He researches side-channel attacks, PUF and TRNG modeling, attacks and countermeasures at CTU FIT while teaching hardware security courses, and applies that expertise commercially as a security expert at Tropic Square. There he has led fault injection testing, secure boot and SBOM deployment, vulnerability disclosure processes, and integration of agentic AI flows into security evaluation. Ondřej combines hands-on silicon validation and firmware development with academic rigor, bridging lab research and real-world product hardening for open-source secure elements. Less obvious: he balances deep academic study with operational security programs, enabling both novel countermeasure design and practical, auditable implementations.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Master's degree at COSIC (KU Leuven)
Master's degree, Computer security, Master's degree, Computer security at Faculty of Information Technology CTU in Prague
Master's degree, Computer security, Master's degree, Computer security at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science