Paul Van Brouwershaven
CEO & Founder at PKI Consortium
Bergen op Zoom, North Brabant, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Van Brouwershaven is a seasoned technologist and founder with over 25 years of experience advancing digital trust, PKI, and post-quantum readiness while scaling trust platforms and influencing global policy. As CEO of Digitorus and Chair of the PKI Consortium’s PQC working group, he blends hands-on engineering (notably contributions to Hugo and octodns) with strategic leadership across industry, regulators, and standards bodies. He has a proven track record of turning emerging cryptographic technologies into commercial solutions, revitalizing organizations, and automating operations—having migrated major consortium sites to Hugo and built membership automation. Comfortable moving between code, compliance, and commercial strategy, he advises governments, CAs, and enterprises on secure-by-design systems and certificate lifecycle management. Based in the Netherlands, he’s known for translating complex standards into practical implementations and for quietly shipping high-impact open-source fixes that improve ecosystem interoperability.
14 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Multimedia, Multimedia at Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam
Dutch, English
Github Skills (16)
xml10
infrastructure-as-code10
hugo10
static-site-generation10
go10
dns10
python10
xml-parsing10
image-processing9
content-management9
cms9
cloudflare9
workflow-engine9
content-management-system9
blog-engine8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
octodns/octodns
Jun 2017 - Feb 2018
Tools for managing DNS across multiple providers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 7 PRs, 44 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Paul contributed to the octodns project by implementing and refining DNS provider integrations. They fixed provider-specific issues, such as incorrect class names for NS1. They added features like support for included/excluded records, which enhances flexibility in DNS management. Additionally, the user modified the Cloudflare provider to support proxied records and added SRV record support, expanding the project's capabilities.
dnsprovidersdns-recordinfrastructure-as-codeworkflow
gohugoio/hugo
Nov 2021 - Jun 2022
The world’s fastest framework for building websites.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:42 reviews, 6 commits, 9 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Paul's commits primarily focused on enhancing the Hugo static site generator's resource handling capabilities. Key contributions included adding remote support to resource retrieval, implementing a file cache for remote resources to improve performance, and integrating XML data support for broader content processing. Further development involved implementing text filters for image generation, and various media type registration and content processing enhancements.
cmshugoblog-enginedocumentation-toolfastest
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