Christopher Talib
Senior Security Research Engineer at Proofpoint
Germany
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Top SchoolChristopher Talib is a Senior Security Research Engineer based in Germany with 11 years of experience blending hands-on security research, incident response, and secure web development. Currently at Proofpoint, he progressed from Security Research Engineer to a senior role after prior positions at Security Research Labs and various SOC/IR roles, demonstrating deep operational and investigative expertise. He pairs technical fluency in building and hardening web applications with practical offensive and defensive research, informed by time teaching full‑stack development at Le Wagon. His background in political science and science & technology studies gives him a rare ability to translate technical risk into policy and community-facing communications. A former campaign manager and journalist, he brings strong storytelling and outreach skills to security research, making complex findings accessible to diverse audiences. He maintains a public technical portfolio at christopher.talib.me that reflects his interdisciplinary approach to security.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Full-Stack Developer Web Development, Full-Stack Developer Web Development at Le WagonMaster of Science (MSc) Science and technology in society, Master of Science (MSc) Science and technology in society at The University of EdinburghBachelor's degree Sciences politiques et gouvernement, Bachelor's degree Sciences politiques et gouvernement at Université libre de Bruxelles
French, English, Spanish, Polish, German
Github Skills (89)
security10
program-analysis10
simplify10
static-analysis10
unix10
youtube10
code-injection10
cli10
debugging10
mach-o10
youtube-dl10
radare210
ffmpeg10
libc10
binaries10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
hackerouvert-pw/blog
May 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:14 PRs, 40 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
piks3l/rails-airbnb-clone
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:85 PRs, 100 pushes, 19 branches in 4 days
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