Emiel Matthys
Team Lead at Guardsquare
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolEmiel Matthys is a Team Lead and seasoned software engineer with seven years' experience specializing in mobile application protection and Android obfuscation. Based in Leuven, he has risen through Guardsquare from software engineer to lead, helping secure apps for hundreds of customers with technologies built on ProGuard and products like DexGuard and ThreatCast. His background in reverse engineering and game-security enthusiasm gives him a pragmatic threat-driven perspective on hardening mobile binaries. Emiel combines hands-on engineering with team leadership, translating low-level security research into production-ready protections. He holds a cum laude MSc in Computer Science from KU Leuven, reflecting strong academic foundations that inform his practical work. Outside day-to-day projects he pursues reverse-engineering and obfuscation challenges, a detail that fuels novel defenses rather than typical managerial distance.
7 years of coding experience
Master of Science in Engineering, Computer Science, Cum laude, Master of Science in Engineering, Computer Science, Cum laude at KU Leuven
Github Skills (41)
kotlin10
jvm-bytecode10
dalvik10
parser10
read-write10
decompiler10
deobfuscation10
abstract-syntax-tree10
java-decompiler10
apktool10
formatter10
optimizer10
java-bytecode10
bytecode-manipulation10
java10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
EmielMatthys/ReSpectral
May 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:22 pushes, 8 comments, 35 issues in 2 months
EmielMatthys/spotless
Jul 2023 - Aug 2023
Keep your code spotless
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 24 days
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