Niklas Niere
Research Assistant at Paderborn University
Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolNiklas Niere is a research-focused IT-security engineer and PhD candidate at Paderborn University with nine years of experience analyzing and hardening application-layer protocols, especially TLS. He has hands-on experience modifying OpenSSL for forward-secret 0-RTT experiments and maintaining automated TLS analysis tooling such as TLS-Attacker from his time at Ruhr University Bochum. His work blends academic rigor with practical implementation—shipping research prototypes and security library patches that probe real-world protocol behavior. A top-performing master’s graduate (95/100), he complements research with practical curiosity, regularly tackling capture-the-flag challenges to sharpen offensive and defensive skills. Based in Paderborn, Germany, Niklas is focused on bridging cutting-edge censorship and TLS research into usable tools and reproducible evaluations.
9 years of coding experience
Doctor of Science, IT-Security, Doctor of Science, IT-Security at Paderborn UniversityMaster's degree, IT-Security, 95/100 - excellent, Master's degree, IT-Security, 95/100 - excellent at Ruhr University Bochum
German, English, Swedish
Github Skills (47)
censorship-circumvention10
scanner10
ssl10
dpi10
anticensorship10
java10
security10
runtime-modification10
datatypes9
windows9
byte-array8
python8
proxy8
discord7
discord-bot7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
UPB-SysSec/DPYProxy
Jul 2023 - Jun 2026
Python Proxy that implements DPI evasion mechanisms
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 9 PRs in 3 years
proxypython
JonSnowWhite/De-Discord-Algos
Dec 2019 - Oct 2020
Contains different kinds of algorithms in different kinds of languages that have been written in relation to the /r/de-Discord Server.
Contributions:13 commits, 4 PRs, 14 pushes in 10 months
discord
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