Alex Tsanis
Security-Focused Kernel & AOSP Contributor at Google
Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Tsanis is a security-focused kernel and AOSP contributor with 11 years of experience hardening low-level systems across Android and Linux. At Google he monitors and patches high-risk CVEs, upstreams kernel fixes, backports security patches for legacy Android kernels, and implements platform hardening like hardened_usercopy, KASLR, and SELinux policy tightening. His background spans embedded optimization roles at Linaro, Arm, and Canonical and hands-on kernel work at OnePlus, giving him rare expertise in both vendor platforms and upstream community workflows. Proven in reverse engineering, driver development, and firmware work, he combines offensive-security insight with pragmatic mitigation delivery. Based in Greece, he actively upstreams patches and collaborates with vendors to responsibly disclose and fix zero-days, keeping long-lived devices secure.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Undergraduate Student, Computer Science, Undergraduate Student, Computer Science at University of Thessaly
Github Skills (96)
android-settings10
linux10
linux-kernel10
smartphone10
kernel10
device-tree10
parrot9
miui9
crypto9
mask9
look-and-feel9
cryptocurrency9
cryptography9
magisk9
ethereum9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
dragonGR/minhash
Aug 2014 - Oct 2020
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
dragonGR/android_kernel_xiaomi_msm8956
Aug 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:5 releases, 198 commits, 422 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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