Summary
Alyssa Milburn is a Principal Engineer at Intel with nine years of hands-on experience in CPU and embedded security, specializing in identifying, triaging, and mitigating complex vulnerabilities across legacy and future platforms. She combines deep academic research—having completed a PhD on physical, firmware-level, and transient execution attacks—with practical offensive security work that often involves breaking and hardening real products. At Intel she bridges research, engineering, and customers, mentoring colleagues while still diving into RTL, bug reports, and technical analysis. Previously she supported diverse industries at Riscure and ported toolchains for an experimental SPARC CPU on FPGA, highlighting a rare mix of hardware, firmware, and toolchain expertise. Based in The Hague, Alyssa is as comfortable producing high-level strategy and customer-facing materials as she is uncovering subtle low-level flaws that influence platform-wide mitigations.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Leiden University
English, Dutch