We’re happy to announce that Olivier Benjamin has recently joined the Bootlin engineering team!
For anyone in the tech industry, and especially the embedded industry, it is clear now that security is one of the most important topics of the recent and coming years both from a technical standpoint and from a regulatory standpoint (with regulations such as the CRA). Bootlin has already been helping its customers improve the security of their embedded Linux products by providing expertise on secure boot, encryption, TPM or maintenance of Linux BSPs.
With the arrival of Olivier in our team, we’re really happy to be significantly strengthening our security expertise. Indeed, Olivier has a very strong and solid security background: he started his career at security R&D firm Quarkslab doing embedded device security assessment, then he worked for several years for the french Ministry of Defense reverse engineering security implementation in embedded devices, searching for vulnerabilities and developing proofs of concept. He then joined AWS at Amazon, going through various security roles including incident response as well as looking into security vulnerabilities of concern for the hypervisor and kernel layers of EC2.
In addition to being a security expert, Olivier is also passionate about Linux and Open Source, matching well Bootlin’s DNA. Most notably, Olivier is a contributor to the UBPorts project, looking specifically at the Pine64 native port.
Check out Olivier’s profile on our website for more details. Once again, welcome Olivier!
