Klaus-günther Schmidt
IT Specialist Penetration Testing
Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolKlaus-günther Schmidt is an IT specialist in penetration testing with nine years of security experience and a four-year focus on IT and OT/ICS penetration testing, vulnerability management, and coordinated disclosure. He has worked in ProductCERT/PSIRT at Siemens, requested CVEs for the Siemens CNA, and implemented machine-readable advisory workflows (CSAF) to scale vulnerability communication. Klaus-günther has conducted enterprise and product pentests for major customers like Continental and AUMOVIO, discovered weaknesses in banking, messaging, and media webservices, and placed TOP15 in the SANS Dragos ICS CTF. A former teacher, he blends strong communication and training skills—building CTF challenges and delivering hands-on courses from beginner to expert levels. Equally comfortable in incident response, forensic analysis, and developer consulting, he enjoys deep technical analysis and collaborative remediation. Based in Erlangen, he’s open to knowledge-sharing collaborations and practical security engagements that push his OT/IT expertise further.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Informatik, Master of Science - MS Informatik at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenMaster of Science - MS Informatik, Master of Science - MS Informatik at FAU Erlangen-NürnbergAbitur, Abitur at Gregor-Mendel-Gymnasium, AmbergBachelor of Science - BS Informatik, Bachelor of Science - BS Informatik at Universität PassauMaster of Science - MS Computer Science and Engineering - Ingegneria Informatica, Master of Science - MS Computer Science and Engineering - Ingegneria Informatica at Politecnico di Milano
Github Skills (145)
introspection10
virtualization10
sandbox10
xen10
static-analysis9
raspbian9
feed9
socket9
python-markdown9
cpp9
armhf9
desktop9
nextcloud9
sketchup8
oasis8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Id3aFly/drakvuf
Feb 2021 - Mar 2021
DRAKVUF Black-box Binary Analysis
Contributions:1 PR, 39 pushes, 7 branches in 27 days
binary-analysisboxanalysissource-code-analysisprogram-analysis
Id3aFly/security_reports
Apr 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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