Summary
Alexander Bolshev is a Senior Security Consultant and Ph.D. in Distributed Systems/Information Security with 12 years of experience specializing in ICS, embedded, hardware and mobile security. Based in Chiyoda, Japan, he blends deep academic research with hands-on hardware hacking and distributed-systems threat analysis to uncover vulnerabilities across operational technology and embedded platforms. At WithSecure he applies a rare combination of formal distributed-systems expertise and practical reverse-engineering skills to secure critical industrial control and IoT environments. His background in applied mathematics and a doctoral focus gives him a rigorous, quantitative approach to threat modeling and mitigation that goes beyond typical pen-testing.
12 years of coding experience
Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI"
English, Russian, Spanish