Nominee: Kevin Micciche, HPE

Statement

I have over 16 years of experience in the federal certifications field, managing compliance with frameworks such as Common Criteria, FIPS, and DoDIN within the United States, as well as various international certification schemes. My career includes work with multiple certification laboratories, conducting evaluations across a wide range of vendors and product types. Additionally, I have led my organization's secure SDLC initiatives, ensuring compliance with government mandates and maintaining a strong security posture. These efforts demonstrate our commitment to delivering products that meet rigorous security and compliance requirements, providing assurance to our customers.

In my current role as Chief Technologist for Platform Trust, I serve as a lead subject matter expert on cryptography to provide platform security and trust (TPM usage, code signing, inter-platform communication). Furthermore, I lead the business units' transition to post-quantum cryptography in coordination with company-wide efforts, oversee our various PKI implementations, and participate and/or lead the relevant standards bodies and industry associations.

This experience aligns with the Corporation Advisory Committees focus on driving business strategy against market requirements based upon industry and organizational needs.

Nominee: Rick Robinson, Thales Group

Statement

I would like to nominate myself for a position on the Technical Advisory Committee for OpenSSL Corporation.

I have been using OpenSSL Library for 20+ years and consider it a vital component of today's technology in cryptography - especially as we move toward adoption and consumption of post-quantum computing algorithms, protocols, and PKI.

I have a long history of working in cryptography across multiple companies - Avaya, IBM, and most recently ThalesGroup.

I have also been awarded patents in the space of cryptography (see LinkedIn).

It would be an honor to be involved with the OpenSSL Project during this important time in cryptography.

Sincerely,
Rick Robinson

Nominee: Varma Dantuluri, F5

Statement

Over 20 years, across multiple companies, Varma Dantuluri has worked in modifying, adapting and integrating OpenSSL into the core of the respective products. He started using OpenSSL as an opaque library that needed to be integrated. Later, he dug deep into the code and made changes to support various hardware cryptographic accelerators in asynchronous mode. Varma worked on integrating and supporting a wide range of hardware cryptographic accelerators which included individual crypto offload, TLS offload and use of HSMs, for all of which significant changes were made in OpenSSL. The changes were spread across libssl and libcrypto and were made directly in the fast path to meet performance requirements. Certifications, like FIPS & Common Criteria, was another area of focus. On top of the existing FIPS support in OpenSSL, he made changes to get both Level 2 & Level 1 FIPS certification for the overall product and not just the crypto library. With his experience, he can bring in a unique perspective on how best OpenSSL can improve support for custom integrations and certifications.