Nicolas B
Cyber Security Specialist at Swissgrid AG
Lausanne Metropolitan Area Switzerland
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Top SchoolNicolas B is a cyber security specialist with an 11-year tech career and a PhD in Computer Science from EPFL, now applying research-grade security to critical infrastructure at Swissgrid. He has deep expertise in reducing attack surface for low-level C/C++ code via secure dialects, SAST and fuzzing, and has driven open-source tooling and CVE disclosures during his doctoral work. His background spans applied security roles from enterprise WAF fuzzing to building dashboards and mobile/ERP modules, reflecting a blend of hands-on engineering and research rigor. Trained at ETH Zürich and with an exchange at Carnegie Mellon, he combines formal academic grounding with practical delivery in Agile and cross-disciplinary teams. Notably, he built a blackbox HTTP fuzzer early in his career that found real bugs and patches, illustrating a practical, offensive-minded approach to hardening systems. Based in Lausanne, he brings both the curiosity of an academic and the execution focus required for safeguarding national infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Marurité Fédérale Billingue (Allemand-Français) Physics and applied Mathematics French-German bilingual Swiss Federal Matura, Marurité Fédérale Billingue (Allemand-Français) Physics and applied Mathematics French-German bilingual Swiss Federal Matura at Kantonsschule FrauenfeldDocteur ès Science Computer Science, Docteur ès Science Computer Science at EPFLMaster of Science ETH in Computer Science (MSc ETH CS) Information Security, Master of Science ETH in Computer Science (MSc ETH CS) Information Security at ETH ZürichExchange Year Electrical and Computer Engineering, Exchange Year Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
French, German, German, English
Github Skills (195)
parser10
python10
dependency-analysis10
image-processing10
ansi-c10
convert10
code-security10
computer-vision10
cli10
json10
source-code-analysis10
image-manipulation10
ansi10
imagemagick10
llvm-ir10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
vwvw/Ethereum-RingCT
May 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:12 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
vwvw/LLVM-typepp
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:1447 pushes, 5 branches in 1 day
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