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Curriculum Vitae of Jelte Jansen


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Personal Information

  • Name: Jelte Jansen
  • Date of Birth: Februari 7th, 1979
  • Sex: Male
  • Nationality: Dutch


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Employment History

  • 2004-present: NLnet Labs
    • Description: Foundation to develop, implement, evaluate, and promote new protocols and applications for the Internet.
    • Function: Developer
    • Tasks: Development, protocol engineering, application testing, systems maintenance
    • Specifics:
      • One of the two original developers of the ldns DNS library, a C library to simplify DNS programming. It supports RFCs like the DNSSEC documents (RFC4033-4035). Currently the only main developer and maintainer. Apart from being a general library, this contains several specific tools, amongst which:
        • Simple Resolver and debugging tool (drill)
        • DNSSEC signer (ldns-signzone)
        • DNSSEC validator (drill)
        • DNS traffic analyzer (ldns-dpa)
        • DNSSEC zone walker (ldns-walk)

      • With ldns, created an example and interoperability testing implementation for the DNSSEC extension NSEC3 (http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5155.txt)
      • Involved in the creation and validation of several RFCs, most notably RFC4033-4035, RFC4648 and RFC5155.
      • Developer and maintainer of the current iteration of NLnet Labs' and RIPE NCC's DISTEL Testlab, a test setup for performance and regression testing of DNS authoritative servers. Created a way to do basic classifications of differences between server implementations. Currently reimplementing the control and configuration tools of the testlab in Python.
      • Provided assistance with the design and code reviews of NSD 3, an authoritative name server.
      • Provided assistance with the design and code reviews of Unbound, a validating recursive name server

  • 2000-2004: First8 B.V. (part-time)
    • Description: ICT Company specialized in creating inter- and intra-net applications
    • Function: Software Engineer
    • Tasks: Design and development of Java-based Internet applications

  • 1998-2000: InterNLnet B.V. (part-time)
    • Description: Internet Provider
    • Function: Helpdesk for an Internet provider.
    • Tasks: Provide technical help to customers with their network and Internet connections


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Publications

  • Original author and current editor for the DNSSEC RSA/SHA-2 Internet Draft
    • http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnsext-dnssec-rsasha256-13

  • DNSSEC Key maintenance
    • http://www.internetdagarna.se/arkiv/2008/www.internetdagarna.se/images/stories/doc/13_DNSSEC_Key_maintenance.pdf

  • An Introduction to the use of HSM
    • http://nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/publications/hsm/index.html

  • Measuring the effects of DNSSEC deployment on query load
    • http://nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/publications/dnssec/dnssec-effects.pdf


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Education

  • High school: Gymnasium Beekvliet
  • University: University of Nijmegen (now known as Radboud University)
    • Master's degree in Computing Science
    • Graduated on Security and Development
    • Aia Master award for master thesis Slicing Midlets


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Other

  • Several personal projects can be found on http://www.tjeb.nl/Projects
  • 1999 - 2001: Chair of Thalia, the student association for Computing Science
  • 2000 - 2001: Treasurer of 'Stichting Beet', a student association encompassing the technology studies at the University of Nijmegen
  • 2001 - 2002: Chair of 'Stichting Beet'