Six years ago I joined PKI Solutions company and as part of this process I wasn't allowed to blog about PKI/DEV stuff here. Today was my last official working day at PKI Solutions and I'm back here! I spent very interesting six years there, we did really incredible work "like no one ever seen before" ©Trump. We went just from some rough idea to a quite mature product: PKI Spotlight. I was responsible for architecture design, concepts and core/critical component development and for random really cool stuff. It was a very challenging journey, nothing came just as a straight line. Throughout the process, I learned quite a lot of new stuff, such as Azure, DevOps, containers, etc., it was a non-stop learning process. At PKI Solutions, I met some really good men, Ján Sokoly, Nick Sirikulbut, Mike Bruno, Jake Grandlienard and many others. But things are changing, the company is growing, people come and go, and it's a time for new opportunities and challenges.
As I mentioned in previous post, I brought my open-source projects (PSPKI and others) to company's GitHub account. In return, I've got a permission to work on them during my work hours (with some conditions, but anyways), which was very appealing. Throughout the work at PKI Solutions, I continued the support of these tools and we created some new open-source projects as part of company's commitment to community. As part of my resignation, I was given these tools back. I want to thank Mark B. "the PKI guy" Cooper (PKI Solutions president) who is a great man and released them without conditions. So, basically almost the same stuff is back:
- PowerShell PKI module
- pkix.net library
- ASN.1 Editor and ASN parser library
I didn't bring SSL Certificate Verifier, because it looks good enough in its current state and I have no particular plans on it. I will continue to support existing tools, though I need to do some work, such as updating documentation on my website, update internal tooling, Azure DevOps pipelines and so on. And, of course, will occassionally blog about some PKI/PowerShell/CryptoAPI stuff. So stay tuned!
Hey! Glad to hear you're back! Appreciate your work on that fantastic toolset 👍
Looking forward to see your new posts
@Stanislav, thank you!
I enjoy your contributions to the space and loved getting your take on the webinars PKI Solutions provided.Glad to hear things went well with the resignation - the people over at PKI Solutions were truly professional in all my interactions with them as well.Excited to see what's next for you!
Welcome back! So nice to see you writing here again - I look at articles here several times a year and have even used them as references for business PKI matters.
While the work over on PKI Solutions is also great, it's fantastic they released your invaluable toolset back to your capable custodianship. Which also means they will continue to be actively developed. (Since I have found what might be a small bug, this happens to be of immediate interest!)
I for one could not maintain my organisation's PKI environment to the moderate standard* I've been able to achieve without the help of PSPKI in particular, all the associated toolsets, and the very, very useful and clear documentation** you have so kindly made available to us all.
Thank you so much for all you have done over these years, and looking forward to what comes next!
(* at least better than the "very poor" standard when I started)
(** so much of it as I can understand in your thorough deep dives)
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