Wolfgang Hommel
Executive Director at Forschungsinstitut Cyber Defence (CODE)
Germany
Summary
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RockstarWolfgang Hommel is an experienced executive and academic leader with 15 years in software and security, currently serving as Executive Director of the Forschungsinstitut Cyber Defence and Professor for Software and Data Security at the Universität der Bundeswehr München. He combines operational leadership with deep technical expertise from roles as CISO and group leader at a national supercomputing centre and a decade of university teaching and research. Wolfgang bridges applied cybersecurity research and hands-on engineering, exemplified by macOS-focused contributions to the libfaketime open-source project that required low-level syscall interception and memory-arena adjustments. His work emphasizes making complex systems auditable and resilient while translating research into practical tools and institutional strategy. Based in Germany, he is known for balancing rigorous academic inquiry with pragmatic, production-oriented security solutions.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (5)
c1710
macos10
c1110
datetime8
datetimes8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wolfcw/libfaketime
Apr 2011 - Dec 2022
libfaketime modifies the system time for a single application
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 234 commits, 105 PRs in 11 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Wolfgang primarily focused on adapting the libfaketime library to work correctly on macOS. They made changes to intercept internal syscalls, modify malloc arena treatment, and adjust the wrapper shell script for environment variables. Furthermore, they implemented a new feature to limit libfaketime's activity period and added features for executing an external command after a program has been running for a defined period. This included environmental variables related settings and adjustments.
datetimeld-preloadreproducible-buildssingle-applicationintercept-calls
wolfcw/vimr.mmbundle
Aug 2018 - Jul 2023
Contributions:1 release, 1 branch, 1 tag in 4 years 11 months
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