Pieter Agten
Senior Technical Director at Fortanix
Hechtel-Eksel, Limburg, Belgium
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Top SchoolPieter Agten is a Senior Technical Director with 13 years of experience blending applied research and product engineering in security-sensitive domains such as confidential computing, automotive systems, and embedded software. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from KU Leuven and has progressed from PhD researcher to senior engineering and director roles at Fortanix, bringing deep expertise in Rust, TPMs, AUTOSAR, and EtherCAT. Pieter excels at translating rigorous security requirements into practical, deployable systems for constrained environments and has led cross-functional teams to ship production-grade platforms. His background spans academia and industry, giving him a knack for bridging theoretical security primitives with real-world automotive and industrial implementations. Based in Hechtel-Eksel, Belgium, he combines hands-on low-level development with strategic technical leadership, often focusing on making confidential computing accessible in embedded contexts.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor (dr) Engineering Science: Computer Science, Doctor (dr) Engineering Science: Computer Science at KU Leuven
Dutch, English, French
Github Skills (72)
confidential-computing10
sgx10
tee10
stlink10
embedded10
rust10
hal10
mbedtls10
enclave10
compiler9
simulation9
trusted-execution-environment9
renode9
esapi9
risc-v9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Pagten/rust-mbedtls
May 2020 - Jun 2024
Idiomatic Rust wrapper for MbedTLS
Contributions:20 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 1 month
idiomaticrustmbedtlsrustlangrust-wrapper
fortanix/libc
Sep 2021 - Feb 2024
Raw bindings to platform APIs for Rust
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 5 months
rustrustlang
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