Felix Bilstein
Security Researcher at CrowdStrike
Cologne Bonn Region Germany
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Top SchoolFelix Bilstein is a security researcher with eight years of hands-on experience in reverse engineering, forensic analysis, and secure software development, currently contributing to threat research at CrowdStrike. He built and maintained C/C++ tooling for TLS decryption and packet processing at Fraunhofer FKIE and previously developed penetration-testing tools and exploits in Java, Python, and Bash for SRC. Comfortable across low-level systems and applied security, he blends research rigor with production-focused engineering to deliver auditable, forensic-capable solutions. Based in the Cologne-Bonn region, he holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Bonn and has a track record of hardening infrastructure and automating security workflows. Notably, his work spans both offensive and defensive disciplines, giving him a pragmatic edge when turning reverse-engineering insights into concrete detection and mitigation capabilities.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Informatik, Master of Science - MS, Informatik at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
ninja10
yara10
pcap9
pcapng9
java9
restful8
ninjaframework8
full-stack8
fuse8
sql6
linux6
postgresql6
ubuntu6
web-application5
code-navigation3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
fkie-cad/pcapFS
Feb 2019 - Mar 2022
A FUSE module to mount captured network data
Contributions:185 commits, 104 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
fuseforensicsnetwork-forensicspcappcap-files
fxb-cocacoding/java2yara
Mar 2019 - Feb 2021
A minimal library to generate YARA rules from JAVA
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
javayarajava-8yara-format
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