Oleksii Oleksenko
Senior Researcher at Microsoft
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolOleksii Oleksenko is a senior researcher with 11 years of experience specializing in microarchitectural side-channel attacks and defenses, currently based in Cambridge and working at Microsoft. He progressed from research assistant and PhD work at TU Dresden—where he investigated ISA extensions, trusted execution environments, and memory safety—to resident researcher and now senior researcher roles, blending deep academic rigor with applied industry research. His background includes teaching distributed systems and fault tolerance, plus hands-on internships and engineering roles that give him a pragmatic edge in translating vulnerabilities into mitigations. Notably, his profile reflects sustained focus on Spectre-class attacks and practical defenses, combining theoretical insight with real-world threat modeling.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 1.3, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 1.3 at Technische Universität DresdenIgor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
English, German, Ukrainian, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
security10
afl-fuzz10
stability10
fuzzing10
fuzzer10
power-management9
perf9
evaluator9
introspection9
hpc-applications8
benchmarking8
intel8
simd6
pyglet6
vulnerabilities6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hw-sw-contracts/revizor
May 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 release, 15 commits, 1 PR in 7 months
tudinfse/fex
Jan 2017 - Apr 2020
Fex: A Software Systems Evaluator
Contributions:77 commits, 1 PR, 48 pushes in 3 years 3 months
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