Manuel Sousa
Senior Security Engineer at Google
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolManuel Sousa is an Information Security Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently focused on offensive security and red team operations at Google in Zurich. He combines deep expertise in web, browser, privacy, systems and network security with hands-on research and mitigation work from his prior Google internship and academic fellowships. His background includes applied research at Instituto Superior Técnico and real-world penetration testing engagements with Thales, reflecting a strong bridge between academia and industry. Manuel’s work has contributed to web security improvements and public research like XSLeaks, showing an interest in hardening open platforms as well as finding novel attack surfaces. He is fluent in turning research findings into practical mitigations and automated tests, making him effective at both discovery and defense.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Gestão e Programação de Sistemas Informáticos, Gestão e Programação de Sistemas Informáticos at Escola Secundária de Domingos SequeiraMSc, Information Systems and Computer Engineering, MSc, Information Systems and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
Portuguese, English, French, German
Github Skills (56)
end-to-end-encryption10
blocker10
pgp10
keybase10
browser10
react-native9
dashboard9
dnsmasq9
blackhole9
chat9
react9
raspberry-pi9
shell9
dhcp9
go8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
xsleaks/wiki
Jul 2020 - Nov 2022
XS-Leaks Wiki
Contributions:141 reviews, 489 commits, 24 PRs in 2 years 4 months
leaksbrowserside-channelsxs-leakswiki
manuelvsousa/tribal-wars-cancel-sniping
Jan 2018 - Jul 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
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