Dimitar Tomov
Senior Software Engineer at Scalefocus
Burgas, Bulgaria
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Top SchoolDimitar Tomov is an embedded security engineer and founder with over a decade of hands-on experience delivering secure firmware and IoT/Edge systems across industrial, medical, and consumer domains. He chairs the IoT Workgroup at the Trusted Computing Group and runs TPM.dev and DesignFirst, driving practical adoption of TPM 2.0 and automated TPM updates while also founding companies that attracted enterprise interest. As Principal Engineer at Thistle and former senior roles at wolfSSL and Edge Impulse, he builds developer-friendly secure boot and update clients spanning MCUs to Linux SoCs. A prolific contributor to embedded toolchains, he maintains the wolftpm integration in Buildroot and often adds TPM vendor-specific capabilities and CA bundles. He pairs deep low-level expertise (bootloaders, kernel drivers, TPM/HSM stacks) with a product-first approach, and teaches that knowledge through public training courses and conferences. Based in Sofia, he blends entrepreneurial drive with standards leadership to make hardware security accessible to developers.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer Software Engineering, Fuzzy-Phi Seminars, 6.00, Bachelors, Computer Software Engineering, Fuzzy-Phi Seminars, 6.00 at Burgas Free University
English, Bulgarian
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Github Skills (11)
embedded10
buildroot10
sys10
trusted-computing6
tpm6
linux6
security6
encryption6
java6
c173
c113
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
buildroot/buildroot
May 2022 - May 2022
Buildroot, making embedded Linux easy. Note that this is not the official repository, but only a mirror. The official Git repository is at https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/. Do not open issues or file pull requests here.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:2 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Dimitar primarily contributes to the `wolftpm` package, focusing on its integration within the Buildroot environment. They introduced the package and subsequently updated versions. Their work includes adding configuration options for specific TPM 2.0 capabilities, such as those found in STMicroelectronics and Nuvoton chips, and integrating CA bundles. The user consistently bumps the version and adds configuration options.
buildrootembeddedembedded-linux
EnactTrust/enact-tpm-legacy
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
Enact is an open-source software that enables you to monitor the health of your system
Contributions:4 releases, 2 reviews, 38 commits in 9 months
healthmonitoropen-source-softwareenact
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