Risto Laanoja
Chief Architect at Unicity Labs
Tallinn, Harju maakond, Estonia
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Top SchoolRisto Laanoja is a seasoned security architect and chief architect with 15+ years designing and operationalizing trust infrastructures, cryptographic services, and internet security protocols. As an original engineering member and long-time Security Architect at Guardtime, he helped build standard-compliant, provable-security solutions like KSI and continues that research toward a PhD at Tallinn University of Technology. His career began in banking security at SEB, where he led payment card and online-banking security initiatives and contributed to national digital signature deployments. Risto bridges research and production: he delivers patents, academic papers, and working prototypes while also overseeing integration and operations. He has hands-on experience writing CP/CPS and security procedures for certification authorities and has lectured at the Estonian Business School, reflecting a habit of translating deep technical ideas into teachable practice. Now based in Tallinn, he combines institutional-scale security experience with a researcher’s rigor and a product-minded drive to ship auditable systems.
15 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl. Eng., Engineering, Dipl. Eng., Engineering at Tallinn Technical UniversityCherry-picked courses from MBA programme, Cherry-picked courses from MBA programme at Concordia International Unversity Estonia
Github Skills (28)
group-chat10
crypto-wallet9
wallet9
commerce6
blockchain6
mongodb5
logging5
api5
rsyslog5
artificial-intelligence4
peer-to-peer4
verification4
kafka4
nodejs4
signature4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ristik/ksdbjs
Jun 2013 - Aug 2015
Contributions:11 commits, 2 pushes, 1 tag in 2 years 2 months
signaturekeylessdatabaseweb-interface
ristik/node-guardtime
Dec 2010 - Feb 2017
Contributions:58 commits, 8 pushes, 6 tags in 6 years 2 months
apisigningnode-jsnodejsverification
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