Robert Kisteleki - Introduction

kistel [at] kistel [dot] eu
robert-kisteleki
@kistel
kistel

TL;DR:

Currently working as a principal enginner at the RIPE NCC.
I've been the lead of the RIPE NCC's Research & Development team. I architected / built / facilitated / godfathered services such as RIPE Atlas, RIPEstat, RIPE Labs, RIPE IPmap and more.
I started as a system architect at the RIPE NCC, working in a cross-organisational, international team doing prototyping and architecture design of RPKI (Resource PKI).
Previously I was the manager of a team for a Hungarian IT system provider dealing with e-business solutions and providing Certification Authority and time stamping services (used for qualified electronic signatures - which seemed like a good idea at the time!). I was a member of the team building the CA and TS services.
In the late 90s I built a number of web services such as web shops, portals and business information services, which led me to a path to dive into information security. Became a CISSP and GSEC (for a while).
My "mother tongue" is C/C++ though nowadays when I do program it's Python and/or Go.
Possessing a broad, and in cases deep, knowledge of networking, information systems security, system administration, systems architecture and programming. I'm much preferably on the "let's imagine and create it!" side of things.
Leading / managing team(s) for about 20 years now, with exposure to FIN / HR / marketing / public representation / communities.

Presentation and publication highlights:

Many in the RIPE meeting context e.g. RIPE82, RIPE81 and RIPE81, RIPE79, ..., RIPE71, RIPE70, RIPE68 (on DNSMON), ..., RIPE61 (very first one on RIPE Atlas), RIPE59 (with cars! and a race!), ...
Many articles on RIPE Labs (my favourites include this on "tales from the crypt" and this on "RIPE Atlas probes as IoT devices")
Many details on RIPE Atlas authored by virtually the whole development team
Apparently I'm on ResearchGate too, including my first referred publication!
There are some other references from TREX and CAIDA and more from CAIDA and APNIC and my early history too! And probably even more on Google...
Securing Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL) Objects with Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) Signatures (RFC7909)
It seems I am credited for CVE-2014-0240.

Other notables:

Hobby stuff:

Proud owner of Kisnake on BattleSnake (yeey, platinum!) as a fun exercise
Maintaining Netiscope (on a low burner)
Maintaining a Go RIPE Atlas API wrapper and Go RIPE Atlas CLI (also on low burners)
PADI Advanced Open Water diver (not really diving any more due to lack of travel)
Podcast favs: Econtalk, Planet Money, The Changelog, Go Time, Software Engineering Daily, People I (Mostly) Admire and some more
Helped creating the fashion label LOV-S
A blog. There are not too many entries but I'll consolidate other write-ups randomly peppered on the 'net into this eventually.

Services and stuff:

As I said above, my personal blog. Which I'll totally update regularly. Pinky promise!
Date-of-birth generator
Train your ears

Technology letter soup: