Nils Hanke
Application Security Engineer
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolNils Hanke is an Application Security Engineer in Hamburg with nine years of hands-on experience securing cloud-native and confidential computing systems. He has progressed from malware analysis and IT operations into research and product-focused security roles, including building enclave-aware tooling at Edgeless Systems and investigating container orchestration risks at UC Santa Barbara. At ABOUT YOU he advanced from Junior to Application Security Engineer, bringing practical expertise in Intel SGX/AMD SEV, Kubernetes, and incident-driven large-scale data analysis. Nils combines academic rigor from an MS in IT Security with pragmatic engineering—he’s built high-interactive honeypots, managed multi-terabyte vulnerability scan datasets, and developed enclave runtimes and database integrations. Colleagues rely on him for bridging deep platform security research with deployable engineering solutions that fit real-world cloud environments.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS IT Security / Information Engineering, Master of Science - MS IT Security / Information Engineering at Ruhr University BochumExchange Student Computer Science / Cyber Security, Exchange Student Computer Science / Cyber Security at University of Birmingham
German, English, Polish
Github Skills (200)
confidential-computing10
btrfs10
intel-sgx10
proxy10
ubuntu10
scanner10
client-library10
sarif10
broadcasting10
fiddler10
obs10
recording10
security-scanner10
gitignore10
enclave10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
sharma-vikram/marblerun
Nov 2020 - May 2021
Marblerun is the service mesh for confidential computing. Deploy, scale, and verify your confidential microservices on vanilla Kubernetes. 100% Go, 100% cloud native, 100% confidential
Contributions:5 commits in 6 months
hybrid-cloudmicroservicemicroservicescomputingconfidential
Nirusu/ISFB_Tools
Jul 2019 - Mar 2020
List of tools to assist in analyzing samples of ISFB/Gozi/Ursnif
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 branches in 8 months
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