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
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Github Skills (27)
rule10
ninja9
yara9
restful8
ninjaframework8
java8
sql6
linux6
full-stack6
postgresql6
ubuntu6
external5
web-application5
hex4
libvirt4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
fxb-cocacoding/yara-signator
Nov 2018 - Feb 2021
Automatic YARA rule generation for Malpedia
Contributions:32 commits, 1 PR, 30 pushes in 2 years 3 months
yararule-generationrule
fkie-cad/pcapFS
Feb 2019 - Mar 2022
Contributions:185 commits, 104 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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