Sebastian Österlund
Offensive Security Researcher at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSebastian Österlund is an offensive security researcher with 11 years of experience, currently embedded in Intel’s STORM team and concurrently pursuing a PhD at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He combines deep academic rigor in parallel and distributed systems with hands-on offensive research, bridging theory and practice in hardware- and software-focused security. His background includes teaching algorithm engineering and equational programming, reflecting a talent for explaining complex technical concepts and mentoring others. Having transitioned from a security research internship to a full researcher role at Intel, he brings proven capability turning novel research into operational insights. Outside formal roles he curates work and resources on his personal site, signaling an active interest in sharing reproducible research and tooling.
11 years of coding experience
Master’s Degree, Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems, Master’s Degree, Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems at VU University Amsterdam
English, Swedish, Dutch, Finnish
Github Skills (40)
qemu10
testing10
collision10
instrumentation10
coverage10
skeleton10
introspection10
sanitizer10
intel9
mutators9
security9
vulnerability-research9
fuzzer9
afl-fuzz9
unicorn9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
VU-Programming/IJVM-Skeleton
May 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:41 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
everythingjavascriptneedapplication-developmentjava
VU-Programming/copp-skeleton
Apr 2018 - Jun 2020
Project Application Development skeleton for C
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 2 years 2 months
application-developmentskeleton
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