Summary
Samuel Hopstock is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in binary exploitation, program analysis, and mobile application security. Currently at Guardsquare, he develops AppSweep, a toolkit that brings advanced mobile app protection and static analysis capabilities to developers. His background blends academic research—lifting ARM binaries to intermediate representations and graph-based static analysis at Fraunhofer AISEC—with practical machine-learning-on-code experience from TNG, where he helped improve license-detection beyond regex approaches. Based in the Greater Munich area and trained at TUM, he combines deep low-level systems expertise with applied tooling and a track record of turning research ideas into developer-facing products.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Deutsche Schule Madrid
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Technical University of Munich
German International School Cape Town
Abitur, Abitur at Schyren-Gymnasium Pfaffenhofen
German, English, Spanish, French