Maurice Hieronymus
Software Engineer Rust at genua GmbH
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMaurice Hieronymus is a software engineer based in Munich with 10 years of hands-on experience focused on systems and security-oriented development, now specializing in Rust. Trained in applied computer science through a dual program at TRUMPF and holding an M.Sc. from TUM with a focus on Computer Architecture, he brings deep low-level knowledge—from assembly and transistor-level concepts to exploiting and mitigating memory-safety vulnerabilities. His career spans embedded and application work in C/C#/.NET and research on secure operating systems at Fraunhofer AISEC, and he now builds secure systems in Rust at genua. Passionate about language-driven safety, he combines practical product delivery with a researcher’s attention to attack surface and correctness. An early programmer taught by his father, he retains a lifelong curiosity for how computers work underneath the hood, which informs his preference for memory-safe system design.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS Angewandte Informatik, Bachelor of Science - BS Angewandte Informatik at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW)Master of Science - MS Informatik, Master of Science - MS Informatik at Technical University of Munich
Github Skills (82)
operating-system10
unix10
browser10
compiler10
rust10
kernel10
scheme10
signature10
rust-lang9
lms9
linux9
post-quantum9
vim9
rust-language9
intervals9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hieronymusma/serenity
Jul 2021 - May 2023
The Serenity Operating System 🐞
Contributions:20 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 10 months
kernelserenityoperating-systemlinuxc-plus-plus
sysheap/sentientos
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
SentientOS - HobbyOS written in Rust for RISC-V
Contributions:109 PRs, 407 pushes, 126 branches in 1 year 9 months
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