Sebastian Banescu
Founder & CEO at Asymmetric Research
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolSebastian Banescu is a cybersecurity and web3 security leader with 13+ years of experience, currently founding and leading Adevar Labs to provide boutique smart contract audits with a strong focus on Solana. A PhD in Computer Science from TUM, he blends deep research credentials—publications, patents, and collaborations with academia—with hands-on roles at Quantstamp and Asymmetric Research. He previously co-founded Chainproof, the first cyber insurer for non-custodial smart contracts, reflecting his interest in practical risk transfer for DeFi. Sebastian’s work spans software protection, reverse engineering, RNG research and program analysis, and he often bridges cutting-edge research with pragmatic security operations. Based in Munich but active globally, he combines entrepreneurial drive with a rare mix of formal verification instincts and offensive security skills.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaMSc Information Security Technologies, MSc Information Security Technologies at Eindhoven University of TechnologyDr. rer. nat. (PhD) Computer Science, Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) Computer Science at Technical University of MunichBSc. Computer Science, BSc. Computer Science at Technical University of Cluj Napoca
English, Romanian, German
Github Skills (133)
interoperability10
network-analysis10
contract10
security10
smart-contracts10
cpp10
wormhole10
solidity10
jtag10
capstone10
mobile-application10
x86-6410
glibc10
golang10
android-application10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tum-i4/obfuscation-benchmarks
Sep 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:34 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
banescusebi/europecv2013
Nov 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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