Paul Gerste
Vulnerability Researcher at SonarSource
Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolPaul Gerste is a vulnerability researcher based in Bochum with five years of experience bridging academic systems security and applied product research. After a research assistant role at Ruhr-University Bochum he has been uncovering and mitigating software weaknesses at SonarSource since 2021, combining rigorous MSc-level IT security training with practical engineering from an earlier mathematical-technical software apprenticeship. He excels at translating deep security research into actionable tooling and processes for development teams, informed by a background in scientific programming. Known for methodical analysis and a knack for turning complex vulnerabilities into reproducible findings, he brings both academic rigor and production-minded pragmatism to software supply-chain and code-quality challenges.
4 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, IT Security, Master of Science - MS, IT Security at Ruhr-University BochumBachelor of Science - BS, Scientific Programming, Bachelor of Science - BS, Scientific Programming at Aachen University of Applied Sciences
English, German
Github Skills (43)
debug9
middleware9
router9
sql-database9
database9
cve9
vulnerabilities8
sca8
api8
sql8
fiddler8
security8
hosts8
golang8
vulnerability8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
SonarSource/argument-injection-vectors
Mar 2023 - Jan 2025
A curated list of argument injection vectors
Contributions:7 reviews, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 10 months
paul-gerste-sonarsource/BuzzwordHaven-test
Sep 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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