Andy Nguyen
Staff Information Security Engineer
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Nguyen is a Staff Information Security Engineer at Google with a decade of experience building and hardening systems from kernel exploits to large-scale fuzzing and network security. Trained at ETH Zürich in Computer Science, he combines deep low-level expertise—demonstrated by contributions to PSP/PS Vita custom firmware and kernel ROP chains—with cloud-scale security work on projects like syzkaller. At Google he progressed from Information Security Engineer to Staff, focusing on practical vulnerability discovery, init/driver-level fixes, and tooling that improves test coverage for complex protocols (IPv6, Bluetooth, vhci). Known for shipping both production security features and diagnostic tools, he bridges embedded C/assembly debugging with backend and fuzzing engineering to turn elusive bugs into reproducible, fixable issues.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at ETH Zürich
Github Skills (40)
debug10
assembly10
linux10
bluetooth-le10
c-programming10
c1110
networking10
security10
c1710
kernel10
exploit10
parsing10
kernel-mode10
parse10
assembler10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
TheOfficialFloW/h-encore
Jun 2018 - Aug 2019
Fully chained kernel exploit for the PS Vita on firmwares 3.65-3.68
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer
Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:1 release, 46 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily focused on modifying and updating the kernel exploit for the PS Vita. They implemented changes to the kernel ROP chain, fixed code and logic errors in the exploit, and added new features such as the ability to personalize savedata and an auto-exit feature. These changes involved modifications to assembly language macros and the main payload code.
kernelzerovitalinuxfirmwares
TheOfficialFloW/Adrenaline
Apr 2017 - Sep 2020
Custom Firmware 6.61 Adrenaline for the PSP Emulator
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 100 commits, 27 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily contributed to the custom firmware for the PSP emulator. Their contributions include fixing minor bugs within the code, addressing "Please wait..." issues in some games, improving the home screen, and adding support for CWCheat in pops mode. The user also worked on code refactoring and fixing msfs truncation bugs.
emulatorfirmwarecustom-firmwareemulationpsp
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