Pau Oliva
Senior Security Consultant at IOActive, Inc.
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolPau Oliva is a Senior Security Consultant with over 25 years of experience specializing in mobile and embedded security, currently advising clients at IOActive on penetration testing, reverse engineering and vulnerability discovery. He has a deep, long-standing focus on Android security—co-authoring Wiley's Android Hacker's Handbook and researching the platform since its 2008 debut—combined with hands-on work for OEMs, government, law enforcement, health and finance sectors. Pau’s background spans low-level reverse engineering (m68k, x86, ARM) and network/VoIP security through senior roles at NowSecure, KubiWireless and his own reverse-engineering startup. An active open-source contributor, he has improved the radare2 reverse-engineering framework with architecture-specific fixes and encryption/disassembly enhancements. Known for explaining complex technical findings clearly to both technical and business stakeholders, he pairs deep technical craft with practical risk mitigation. Outside work he channels the same pattern-spotting curiosity into speedsolving Rubik’s cubes, competitive gaming and chiptune music.
26 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master Internet Business (MIB), Internet Business, Master Internet Business (MIB), Internet Business at Instituto Superior para el Desarrollo de Internet (ISDI)UPC Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaUOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
English, Spanish, Catalan
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Github Skills (12)
c1710
6800010
radare210
reverse-engineering10
c1110
binarydiff10
cryptography9
android9
mips8
command-line7
malware6
anti-malware6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
radareorg/radare2
Sep 2012 - Aug 2016
UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 4 years
Contributions summary:Pau contributed to the Radare2 reverse engineering framework, primarily focusing on bug fixes and enhancements related to various architectures and functionalities. Their work included fixing parameter order issues in the `unzip` command on Android, resolving build issues for MIPS architecture using the Android NDK, and correcting endianness problems within the CPS-2 decryption component. Further contributions extended to addressing m68k disassembler crashes and implementing CPS-2 encryption support.
unixbinary-analysissecurityradare2forensics
poliva/random-scripts
Sep 2012 - Sep 2017
scripts I use from time to time
Contributions:93 commits, 5 pushes, 1 comment in 5 years 1 month
scriptpythonpython-scriptbatch
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