Robert Swiecki
Staff Information Security Engineer, Team Lead And Manager
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolRobert Swiecki is a Staff Information Security Engineer and team lead based in Zurich with 11 years of professional experience and over two decades in security-oriented engineering roles. At Google since 2007 he has built and managed international teams that design advanced security tooling—everything from sandboxing frameworks to fuzzers—and routinely perform product security reviews and vulnerability disclosures to major vendors like Apache and OpenSSL. Technically hands-on, he contributes to open projects such as FuzzBench (maintaining and upgrading honggfuzz integrations), blending DevOps, fuzzing, and performance tuning expertise. His background in telecommunications and early roles in UNIX/HPC and network administration give him a rare full-stack security perspective spanning hardware, OS, and distributed systems. Known for turning deep research into practical, production-grade defenses, he balances leadership, incident prevention, and open-source stewardship.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Telecommunications, BSc, Telecommunications at Warsaw University of Technology
English, Polish, German
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Github Skills (14)
automation10
fuzzing10
benchmarking10
benchmark10
docker10
automations10
automation-testing10
dockers10
linux9
github-ci8
git8
githubaction-workflow8
powershell6
exchange-server6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
google/fuzzbench
Mar 2020 - Feb 2021
FuzzBench - Fuzzer benchmarking as a service.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:17 commits, 18 PRs, 40 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily focused on updating and maintaining the `honggfuzz` fuzzer within the `fuzzbench` project. Their contributions involved upgrading the `honggfuzz` version multiple times, addressing performance issues, and integrating new features. They also modified the `builder.Dockerfile` and `fuzzer.py` files to adapt to the updated versions and configurations.
benchmarkingsecurityevaluationfuzzingbenchmark-framework
google/honggfuzz
May 2015 - Jan 2023
Security oriented software fuzzer. Supports evolutionary, feedback-driven fuzzing based on code coverage (SW and HW based)
Contributions:107 releases, 16 reviews, 3043 commits in 7 years 9 months
security-toolssecuritysecurity-testingfuzzingfuzzer
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