Maarten Aertsen is senior internet technologist at NLnet Labs. NLnet Labs is a not-for-profit foundation with the mission to develop open source software and open standards for the benefit of the Internet, particularly in the area of DNS and routing.

Maarten's role is to bring Labs' expertise to policy making bodies, including governments, regulators and multi-stakeholder forums. He previously worked at NCSC-NL on adoption of modern internet standards and its guidance on TLS. One of his last projects at NCSC was to contribute RPKI tests for Internet.nl.