Timo Kasper
Director at Kasper & Oswald GmbH
Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolTimo Kasper is a director and information security expert based in Bochum, Germany, with over a decade of experience bridging academic research and entrepreneurial leadership. He holds a Dr.-Ing. in Information Security and spent a decade at Ruhr-Universität Bochum as a PhD student and postdoc focused on embedded security before founding and directing Kasper & Oswald GmbH since 2012. His background in electrical engineering and deep technical research gives him a rare combination of hands-on hardware-oriented security knowledge and strategic business acumen. Colleagues describe him as someone who translates complex cryptographic and hardware security problems into practical, deployable solutions for industry. He operates at the intersection of rigorous academia and applied product development, often bringing research-grade methods into commercial projects. Based in North Rhine-Westphalia, he couples technical depth with sustained leadership in small-company settings.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom Ingenieur, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Diplom Ingenieur, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at Ruhr University BochumDr.-Ing., Information Security, Dr.-Ing., Information Security at Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security (HGI)
English, French, Czech, German
Github Skills (10)
pcsc10
mifare10
nfc10
chameleon10
sniffer10
rfid10
reader10
card10
smartcard9
doxygen9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
emsec/ChameleonMini
Jul 2015 - Nov 2016
The ChameleonMini is a versatile contactless smartcard emulator compliant to NFC. The ChameleonMini was developed by https://kasper-oswald.de. The device is available at https://shop.kasper.it. For further information see the Getting Started Page https://rawgit.com/emsec/ChameleonMini/master/Doc/Doxygen/html/_page__getting_started.html or the Wiki tab above.
Contributions:2 commits, 2 pushes, 19 comments in 1 year 3 months
emulatorsmartcardsniffershopreader
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