Summary
Leonard Kugis is a hardware-focused cybersecurity founder and embedded software engineer with nine years of experience building resilient systems for safety- and performance-critical applications. As Co-Founder of Liontech Instruments, he leads development of modular, hardware-based malware detectors born out of TU Braunschweig research to protect datacenters and servers where software defenses fall short. His background spans embedded firmware roles at TRINAMIC, Maxim Integrated and Analog Devices, plus hands-on lab work at the university, giving him deep expertise in low-level systems, electronics and integration. Leonard pairs academic rigor (M.Sc. level studies at TU Braunschweig and HTW) with startup execution, currently recruiting pilot customers for prototype trials. He is comfortable across embedded, web and game development stacks, and favors pragmatic, resource-light security solutions that don’t tax monitored systems. An engineer who thinks in silicon as well as software, he brings a rare hardware-first perspective to modern malware defense.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B. Sc. Computer Science and Engineering, B. Sc. Computer Science and Engineering at Hamburg University of Technology
M.Sc. Informations-Systemtechnik, M.Sc. Informations-Systemtechnik at Technische Universität Braunschweig
German, English, French, Esperanto