Robin Sommer
Co-Founder at ICSI - International Computer Science Institute
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolRobin Sommer is a seasoned security-focused technologist and founder with 17 years of experience building network visibility and threat-detection technology. As co-founder and longtime CTO of Corelight in San Francisco, he has bridged cutting-edge research and commercial products that scale to real-world enterprise networks. His background includes senior research roles at ICSI and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and leadership of the IEEE Security & Privacy symposium, reflecting deep ties to the academic and research communities. An active contributor to Zeek, a prominent open-source network analysis framework, he has improved core TCP and HTTP analysis and added protocol-level robustness that underpins many network defenders' toolchains. Based in Munich, he holds a Dr. rer. nat. in computer science from TUM and combines formal academic training with hands-on systems engineering. Less obvious: he moves fluidly between founding-stage product priorities and low-level protocol work, enabling both strategy and meticulous code-level improvements.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Computer Science Mathematics, Diploma Computer Science Mathematics at Paderborn UniversityDr. rer. nat. Computer Science, Dr. rer. nat. Computer Science at Technical University of Munich
German, English
Github Skills (11)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
network-protocol10
network-analysis10
tcp10
cryptography9
apidoc9
api9
http9
information-security8
documentation8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
zeek/zeek
Sep 2010 - Dec 2022
Zeek is a powerful network analysis framework that is much different from the typical IDS you may know.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:635 reviews, 2924 commits, 209 PRs in 12 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Robin primarily worked on the Zeek network analysis framework, contributing to core functionality. The commits include adding support for a new signature algorithms extension, updating documentation, refactoring code, and fixing several bugs. Their work is focused on improving the robustness and functionality of the framework, including core areas like TCP and HTTP analysis.
dfirnsmsecurityanalysisnetworking
rsmmr/install-clang
Jan 2013 - Oct 2019
A script to create a standalone installation of clang/LLVM/libc++. Updated for Clang/LLVM 6.0.
Contributions:90 commits, 3 PRs, 36 pushes in 6 years 10 months
compilersclanginstallationstandalonelibc
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