Otto Bittner
Sr Software Development Engineer at AMD
Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolOtto Bittner is a senior software development engineer with 8 years of hands-on experience in security-focused systems engineering, currently working at AMD after building confidential computing and LLM deployment platforms at Edgeless Systems. He combines kernel- and OS-level hardening (AppArmor, seccomp, cgroups, ASLR) with practical automation of security tooling and test suites, and has a strong background in static analysis and vulnerability annotation. Otto is also an active embedded systems contributor—working on oreboot, a Rust fork of coreboot—where he improved device tree handling and low-level drivers like HPET and DebugPort. Based in Leipzig, he blends deep systems security expertise with firmware and cloud-native confidential computing, making him effective at bridging hardware, firmware and software security.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Informatik, Bachelor of Science - BS Informatik at Leipzig UniversityMaster of Science - MS Informatik, Master of Science - MS Informatik at Technische Universität BerlinInternational Summer School Network Engineering Network Security and Ethical Hacking, International Summer School Network Engineering Network Security and Ethical Hacking at Birmingham City University
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Github Skills (11)
firmware10
embedded10
device-tree10
rust10
sys10
bootloader9
risc-v8
compiler-optimization6
compiler-construction6
llvm-clang6
llvm6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
oreboot/oreboot
Nov 2021 - Jan 2022
oreboot is a fork of coreboot, with C removed, written in Rust.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer
Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 25 commits, 11 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Otto primarily contributed to the `oreboot` project by modifying and adding device tree functionality. Their work included refactoring device tree code, adding a function to retrieve kernel areas, and integrating a tiny smoketest payload. Moreover, the user focused on improving the functionality of the HPET driver and DebugPort driver. They also made format changes and updated the file keys for the device tree.
rustcortex-acorebootbaremetalbootloader
fgsect/FitM
Apr 2020 - Mar 2022
FitM, the Fuzzer in the Middle, can fuzz client and server binaries at the same time using userspace snapshot-fuzzing and network emulation. It's fast and comparably easy to set up.
Contributions:423 commits, 1 push, 9 comments in 1 year 11 months
fuzz-testingcriuuserspaceaflplusplusafl-fuzz
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