Lukas Seidel
Research Scientist at BINARLY🔬
Berlin Metropolitan Area Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolLukas Seidel is a Senior Research Scientist and information security researcher with 11 years of experience building tooling for vulnerability discovery and crash analysis. Based in Berlin, he combines academic rigor as a PhD candidate with hands-on engineering at companies like RevEng.AI, BINARLY, and Qwiet AI to bridge research and product security. He has deep expertise in fuzzing and low-level instrumentation—contributing ARMv7 signal and register handling to the widely used AFLplusplus LibAFL project—improving crash diagnostics across embedded platforms. Lukas’s background in telecom security research and a Master’s in Computer Science from TU Berlin give him a strong foundation in systems security, reverse engineering, and scalable backend tooling. Colleagues know him for turning subtle architecture and signal-handling challenges into reliable, debuggable systems that surface hard-to-find bugs.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Technische Universität Berlin
Github Skills (13)
arm10
fuzzing10
rust10
libfuzzer10
architectures10
architecture10
sys8
software-design8
system-design8
data-structure7
data-structures7
algorithm7
algorithms7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
AFLplusplus/LibAFL
Sep 2021 - Nov 2022
Advanced Fuzzing Library - Slot your Fuzzer together in Rust! Scales across cores and machines. For Windows, Android, MacOS, Linux, no_std, ...
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 5 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Lukas primarily focused on adding support for the ARMv7 architecture within the fuzzing library. This involved defining and implementing `ucontext_t` and `mcontext_t` structures for signal handling and register dumping, crucial for crash analysis on ARM platforms. The commits also included the implementation of functions for writing crash information, indicating a focus on improving the library's capabilities for debugging and understanding failures on ARM architectures. Additionally, the user contributed to the `TimeoutExecutor`, adding a method to change the desired timeout and incorporating file input support for forkserver.
libaflcoverage-guidedno-stdstdaflplusplus
fgsect/JMPscare
Jul 2020 - Dec 2022
tool for multi-execution jump coverage introspection
Contributions:1 review, 38 commits, 3 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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