Marcos Alvares
Manager Applied Research Cell at CrowdStrike
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMarcos Alvares is an applied research leader with 17 years of experience in malware analysis, reverse engineering, software development, and machine learning, currently managing the Applied Research Cell at CrowdStrike in Amsterdam. He has progressed from hands-on roles building malware processing pipelines and Rust-based userland hooking frameworks to shaping long-term threat intelligence and collection technology strategy. His background spans top-tier incident and threat teams at CrowdStrike and FireEye, where he combined botnet emulation, data science, and reverse engineering to track sophisticated cybercrime campaigns. Academically grounded with a PhD focus in Information Security and AI plus specialized training in software security, cryptography, and usable security, he blends rigorous research with operational tradecraft. As the eldest in a family of engineers and the son of an electronic engineer who worked on radar systems, he brings a lifetime curiosity about systems and adversaries to his work. He is known for turning deep technical insight into scalable detection and analysis capabilities and remains open to collaboration across research and development.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College ParkSummer School, Reverse Engineering, Reverse Engineering, Summer School, Reverse Engineering, Reverse Engineering at Ruhr-Universität BochumUniversity of Johannesburg Master’s Degree, Artificial Intelligence, Econometrics, Master’s Degree, Artificial Intelligence, Econometrics at University of Pernambuco
Portuguese, English, Spanish, Italian
Github Skills (24)
extraction8
pcap7
security7
ram7
zeek7
network-monitoring7
payload7
ids6
introspection6
xen6
malware6
bro5
networking5
network-analysis5
python5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mabj/ctf_ucon2
Feb 2009 - Mar 2009
Contributions:49 commits in 8 days
mabj/anti
Sep 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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