Manuel Huber
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolManuel Huber is a software engineer and IT-security PhD based in Vancouver with six years of professional experience and a strong research background from Technical University Munich and Fraunhofer AISEC. He blends practical backend and DevOps engineering—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like Kata Containers—with deep expertise in platform and IoT security gained through Microsoft Research and security research roles. At Microsoft he applies rigorous vulnerability remediation and build automation practices, demonstrated by upgrading critical dependencies and improving rootfs build tooling in container runtimes. His academic work is published and indexed on ORCID, Google Scholar and DBLP, reflecting a track record of peer-reviewed contributions to security and systems research. Comfortable across C/C++, Java, container ecosystems and low-level embedded security, he brings both production-grade engineering and a researcher’s attention to threat models and reproducibility. An often-overlooked strength is his history of cross-disciplinary projects—from database optimization to GPU and multicore programming—giving him a broad systems perspective when solving complex security and infrastructure problems.
6 years of coding experience
Master's Thesis, 1.0, Master's Thesis, 1.0 at University of SalzburgStay abroad in Los Angeles, USAPhD Studies, Informatics, PhD Studies, Informatics at Technical University MunichEURECOM (Télécom ParisTech)Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 1.88 amonst the year's best, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 1.88 amonst the year's best at Universität AugsburgMaster's degree, Computer Science, currently 1.5, Master's degree, Computer Science, currently 1.5 at Technische Universität MünchenQualification for University Entrance (Abitur), 2.70, Qualification for University Entrance (Abitur), 2.70 at High School Wertingen
German, English, French, Spanish, Italian
Github Skills (13)
automation10
container10
docker10
automations10
build-system10
dockers10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods9
grpc9
rust9
go9
kubernetes9
virtualization8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kata-containers/kata-containers
May 2023 - Jul 2026
Kata Containers is an open source project and community working to build a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages of VMs. https://katacontainers.io/
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:124 reviews, 63 PRs, 21 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Manuel primarily contributed to the build and rootfs processes within the Kata Containers project. They made changes to the tools and scripts used for building root file systems, enabling features like setting agent policies and integrating with CBL-Mariner. Additionally, the user addressed a critical security vulnerability by upgrading a vendor dependency for gRPC. These changes indicate involvement in both infrastructure automation and backend software development.
kata-containerssecurityvirtual-machinekvmvirtualization
manuelh-dev/kata-containers
Sep 2025 - Jul 2026
Kata Containers is an open source project and community working to build a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages of VMs. https://katacontainers.io/
Contributions:294 pushes, 115 branches in 10 months
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