Roland Van Rijswijk
Scientific Director TUCCR at University of Twente
Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRoland Van Rijswijk is a scientific director and academic leader with 12+ years of hands-on experience advancing Internet security, privacy and stability across academia, industry and national research networks. As Scientific Director of TUCCR and professor at the University of Twente he blends applied cybersecurity research with public/private collaboration and PhD supervision, translating policy-relevant questions into measurable network research. His career spans technical product management and R&D at SURFnet, science advising at NLnet Labs, and industry-facing engineering roles, giving him deep operational knowledge of DNSSEC, identity federations and trusted execution technologies. Roland regularly presents at international conferences and has led cross-institution measurement and security projects, including collaborative work at CAIDA on large-scale DNS experiments. Notably, he pairs rigorous PhD-level research (cum laude) with practical engineering experience dating back to embedded and identity products, making him fluent across bits-in-the-packet details and societal impacts of the Internet. Based in Enschede, he is committed to an open Internet and to educating the next generation of networkers.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Cum laude, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Cum laude at University of TwenteMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Universiteit TwenteStedelijk Gymnasium Arnhem
Dutch, English, German, French, Spanish
Github Skills (51)
caching10
dyndns10
dns-record10
dns-resolver10
mdns10
unbound10
softhsm10
validating10
resolver10
dnssec10
hsm10
dns10
recursive10
censorship-resistance10
bind10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
NLnetLabs/oi-dnssecchecker
Dec 2018 - Dec 2019
Contributions:21 commits in 1 year
rijswijk/unbound
Feb 2020 - Jan 2021
Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver.
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
recursivevalidatingresolvednsmasqrouteros
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