Daniel Burian
Security Engineer at Google
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolDaniel Burian is a Security Engineer at Google with 14 years of hands-on experience in offensive and defensive cybersecurity, specializing in pentesting, reverse engineering, and hardware/firmware analysis. He assesses third-party products and partners with vendors to harden future product generations, blending deep technical audits—source code review, cryptographic analysis, threat modeling—with practical exploit development in Python and Java. His background spans embedded and enterprise systems, smart grid research, and leading small pentest teams, reflecting both research rigor and consultative delivery. Prior roles include senior consulting at Trustworks and software development across .NET and Node.js stacks, giving him a rare ability to move between low-level hardware faults and high-level architectural security. Based in Vienna, he publishes on embedded and hardware security and builds internal tooling to automate vulnerability discovery, demonstrating a persistent focus on scalable security improvements.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Software Engineering/Internet Computing, Master of Science - MS, Software Engineering/Internet Computing at Vienna University of TechnologyCollege of Electronic Data Processing and Organisation - Specialising in Commercial Data Processing, Reifeprüfung-Certificate and VET-Diploma, graduated with honors, College of Electronic Data Processing and Organisation - Specialising in Commercial Data Processing, Reifeprüfung-Certificate and VET-Diploma, graduated with honors at HTL Donaustadt
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Github Skills (16)
journal9
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android8
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nave6
versioning5
nodejs5
nvm5
shell4
zsh4
database2
javascript2
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
0xDB/tickmate
Nov 2020 - Apr 2021
One bit journal
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
journalbit
0xDB/WDOSXUnpacker
May 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:1 commit, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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