Fernando Gont is a Staff Platform Security Engineer at Serve Robotics.

Gont has twenty years of industry experience in the fields of Internet engineering and information security, working for private and governmental organizations from around the world.

He previously worked as a Security Researcher and Consultant at SI6 Networks, a Staff Platform Security Engineer at Yalo, and the Director of Information Security at EdgeUno. He has also consulted for organizations such as the UK National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC), the UK Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI), and Huawei Technologies Ltd, showcasing his leadership and technical expertise in the field of cybersecurity.

Gont has also been an active contributor to several working groups within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and several research groups within the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF), where he has authored 38 IETF RFCs (Request for Comments) and 2 IRTF RFCs, driving critical advances in Internet security.

Gont has also been involved in a number of open source projects, including the SI6 Networks’ IPv6 Toolkit — a portable and comprehensive security asessment toolkit for the IPv6 protocol suite, and the SI6 Networks’ IoT-toolkit. His contributions extend to core projects like the OpenBSD and FreeBSD operating systems, and the Linux kernel.

Gont has presented at a number of conferences and technical meetings about information security, operating systems, and Internet engineering, including: CanSecWest 2005, FIRST Technical Colloquium 2005, Kernel Conference Australia 2009, DEEPSEC 2009, HACK.LU 2011, Hackito Ergo Sum 2012, Hack In Paris 2013, German IPv6 Kongress 2014, H2HC 2017, and Troopers 2018. Additionally, he is a regular attendee of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meetings.

More information about Fernando Gont is available at his web site.