Paul Muntean
Director Of Cyber Security Architecture at Swisscom
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolPaul Muntean is a Director of Cyber Security Architecture based in Zurich with a PhD-trained background in systems and network security and over a decade of hands-on experience designing secure cloud, data and AI platforms. He leads architecture and governance for data, analytics and LLM initiatives at Swisscom, combining roles as systems architect, pentester, researcher and tech lead to ship secure, high-performance AWS/Azure solutions. Paul has a track record across regulated PKI and trust services, SOC analytics, and enterprise-scale AWS security at Novartis, and he routinely performs threat modeling, pentests and privacy-by-design assessments. Comfortable operating at both strategic and implementation levels, he mentors security champions and steers cross-functional teams of dozens while still doing hands-on engineering. An academic researcher turned practitioner, he brings research-grade rigor to practical problems—often building novel mitigations for secure data ingestion and AI deployment that bridge theory and production.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Focus: Software Requirements Engineering, PhD, Focus: Software Requirements Engineering at University of ZurichDr. rer. nat., (PhD) Computer Science, Focus: Systems Security & Network Security, Dr. rer. nat., (PhD) Computer Science, Focus: Systems Security & Network Security at Technical University of MunichB.Sc., Software Engineering and Systems Control - Erasmus Exchange Student, Bilbao, Spain, B.Sc., Software Engineering and Systems Control - Erasmus Exchange Student, Bilbao, Spain at Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
German, English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (7)
stability9
vulnerabilities8
security8
fuzzing7
modification7
fuzz-testing5
instrumentation4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
TeamVault/LLVM-CFI
Dec 2015 - Jun 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
TeamVault/IntRepair
Jan 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 4 months
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