Raoul Strackx
Engineering Manager, Research at Fortanix
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolRaoul Strackx is an engineering manager and research leader specializing in confidential computing, with a PhD from KU Leuven and over a decade of hands-on experience shaping hardware- and hypervisor-based security architectures. He pioneered influential work on state continuity, formal verification, and side-channel defenses, and authored the first Foreshadow SGX PoC that drew worldwide attention. At Fortanix he moved from senior engineer to Engineering Manager, Research, helping build EDP into a secure, developer-friendly enclave platform while also contributing upstream fixes to the Rust compiler’s SGX support. Raoul combines deep academic rigor with practical product impact, uniquely bridging formal security research and production-ready confidential computing deployments.
6 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Master's degree at KU LeuvenBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at UHasselt
Github Skills (9)
sgx10
compiler10
compiler-compiler10
rust10
testing10
assembler9
assembly9
lang8
concurrency8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rust-lang/rust
Oct 2019 - Oct 2022
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:59 reviews, 40 commits, 35 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Raoul primarily contributed to the Rust compiler's SGX (Software Guard Extensions) support, addressing specific issues related to the Fortanix SGX platform. Their work focused on modifying test scripts, and adjusting the code to prevent certain compiler optimizations on SGX platforms, especially in areas dealing with frame pointers and floating-point operations. The user also improved the thread management code, and updated tests to align with compiler changes.
crategarbage-collectionrustreliablecompiler
raoulstrackx/SGXDataCenterAttestationPrimitives
Oct 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 2 years
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