Dimi Tomov

Dimi founded TPM.dev in 2019, the largest developers' community about hardware security.

Dimi is from Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria (EU 2007, NATO 2004). He has a BS in automation and control systems from the Technical University of Sofia (TU-Sofia). But Dimi's engineering work dates from before the university. He created industrial systems for plastic recycling plant, photovoltaic energy plant, and others.

In 2012, Dimi switched focus to the rising Internet of Things (IoT) market. He helped build a new door bell with voice-over-ip capabilities for a french company. Curious that an year later came the now famous Amazon Ring that had similar capabilities.

In 2014, Dimi was a sub-contractor for Juniper and took the task on building security solution with TPM 1.2. This was his first exposure to Trusted Computing. Information and tools for using the TPM were very hard to find. Dimi envisioned that Trusted Computing will have many applications in the future. He followed TPM 2.0 developments and visited many events to speak with people from the industry.

After failing to convince companies to help lower the knowledge barrier for Trusted Computing, Dimi founded TPM.dev on 1st of December 2019. Four years later, the community grew with over 300% every 6 months and TPM.dev has over 600 members, holds annual conference and monthly calls. It has become a place for discussions and troubleshooting of hardware security.

Between 2014 and 2019, Dimi also helped many enterprises bring new products to the market. For example, he built the fastest Hearing Aid Detection Algorithm for an ex-Siemens business unit.

Dimi rarely speaks at conferences but likes to lead discussion panels.