Fabian Wienand
Software Engineer at BlindSpot Software GmbH
Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolFabian Wienand is a software engineer with eight years’ experience specializing in firmware and systems-level development, currently at BlindSpot Software in Bochum. He has strong hands-on expertise in build and release automation—demonstrated by contributing fuzzing integrations to the high-profile google/oss-fuzz project for u-root components—bringing security-focused testing into complex build pipelines. Fabian’s background spans applied computer science research at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and industry roles at 9elements and semasquare, where he worked on firmware engineering and low-level system tooling. He combines academic rigor (BS in Applied Computer Science, sehr gut) with practical experience shipping resilient CI/build systems and firmware features. Colleagues value his knack for diagnosing brittle build targets and integrating automated fuzz testing to harden components before release.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Angewandte Informatik, sehr gut, Bachelor of Science - BS, Angewandte Informatik, sehr gut at Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Github Skills (10)
fuzzing10
automation10
bash10
automations10
go10
fuzzer10
fuzz-testing10
cicd9
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
google/oss-fuzz
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
OSS-Fuzz - continuous fuzzing for open source software.
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:6 commits, 7 PRs, 8 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Fabian focused on integrating fuzzing tests into the u-root project within the OSS-Fuzz repository. They added and modified build configurations, specifically the `build.sh` script, to incorporate fuzzing targets for various components, including cpio, grub, syslinux, gosh, esxi, ipxe, smbios, and ip. Their work involved setting up dependencies, configuring fuzzing test execution, and integrating seed corpora. Additionally, they addressed build issues by disabling failing fuzzing targets.
oss-fuzzfuzz-testingossvulnerabilitiessecurity
RiSKeD/u-root
Aug 2022 - Dec 2024
A fully Go userland with Linux bootloaders! u-root can create a one-binary root file system (initramfs) containing a busybox-like set of tools written in Go.
Contributions:463 pushes, 41 branches in 2 years 4 months
golanglinuxinitramfsbusyboxuserland
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