Jonas Pfoh
Director Of Security Engineering at BedRock Systems
Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJonas Pfoh is a security engineering leader with 12+ years of experience building high-assurance systems, currently serving as Director of Security Engineering at BedRock Systems after leading its Active Security team. He specializes in virtualization-based defenses, kernel hardening, policy enforcement, and forensic logging across x86 and ARM hypervisor stacks, translating research prototypes into production features. His background spans academic research (PhD from TUM, MS from USC) and applied malware automation and virtual machine introspection work at FireEye, including driving VMI into commercial products. Jonas has presented at venues like Black Hat, USENIX and NDSS and published tools such as Nitro that influenced KVM-VMI, showing a track record of both impactful research and productization. Based in Dresden, he combines deep systems expertise with a hands-on builder mindset—“Builder of things, explorer of worlds”—and a propensity for curriculum and tooling improvements (e.g., a C primer used in teaching).
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Computer Science with specialization in Computer Security, Computer Science, 3.9, Master of Science in Computer Science with specialization in Computer Security, Computer Science, 3.9 at University of Southern CaliforniaDoctor of Science, Computer Science, summa cum laude, Doctor of Science, Computer Science, summa cum laude at Technical University of MunichBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.3, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.3 at State University of New York College at Plattsburgh
Github Skills (12)
system-analysis9
virtual-machine9
arm8
x868
malware8
python7
kvm7
incident-response3
linux-kernel2
kernel2
nitro2
linux1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bedrocksystems/tenjint
Jul 2019 - Feb 2021
tenjint is a Python 3-based platform for virtual machine introspection (VMI) on x86 and ARM. This is main Python 3 tenjint library.
Contributions:6 reviews, 25 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 7 months
armpythonvirtual-machinex86
pfohjo/nitro
Nov 2013 - May 2017
KVM-based virtual machine introspection for malware analysis
Contributions:23 commits, 1 push in 3 years 6 months
kvmmalwarevirtual-machine
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