Michael Rodler
Security Consultant at X41 D-Sec GmbH
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolMichael Rodler is a Security Consultant and PhD-trained software security researcher with 13 years of experience in application and platform security. He blends hands-on vulnerability research—fuzzing, symbolic execution, sanitizers and binary/compiler work—with pragmatic AppSec engineering across secure SDLC, threat modeling, and code review in C/C++/Rust and Java ecosystems. Michael has driven fuzzing and open-source tooling at AWS, contributed fuzz harnesses and tooling like snapchange, and maintains practical developer-facing projects such as the sec-deadlines front-end enhancements. His work spans hardware-backed protections and TEEs as well as software-only mitigations, giving him a rare cross-layer perspective on exploit mitigations and secure execution. Based in Cologne, he enjoys breaking systems to help teams rebuild them more securely and has a track record of turning academic program-analysis techniques into production-relevant defenses.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer and Network Security, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer and Network Security at University of Applied Sciences Upper AustriaMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Technische Universität GrazDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Duisburg-Essen
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
sec-deadlines/sec-deadlines.github.io
Jun 2018 - May 2022
Deadline countdowns for academic conferences in Security and Privacy
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 15 commits, 9 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on improving the front-end of the conference deadline website. They refactored the JavaScript to handle multiple deadlines for a single conference, ensuring the countdown timers and display logic correctly parsed and presented the data. Furthermore, they addressed a sorting bug in Chrome and bumped JavaScript dependencies, showing a commitment to maintaining a functional and up-to-date user interface. The user also incorporated iCal links to aid users in adding deadlines to their calendars.
security
f0rki/papis
Aug 2022 - Oct 2025
Powerful and highly extensible command-line based document and bibliography manager.
Contributions:88 pushes, 19 branches in 3 years 3 months
command-line-toolpythonbibliographyextensiblecommand-line
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