Thijs Alkemade
Vulnerability Researcher at Apple
Randstad, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolThijs Alkemade is a vulnerability researcher with 16 years of security and software experience, currently working on advanced platform security at Apple after leading research at Computest Sector 7. He’s a repeat Pwn2Own competitor who demonstrated zero-day exploits in Zoom (Vancouver 2021), industrial control systems (Miami 2022) and EV chargers (Tokyo 2024), and has prior research exposing macOS and iOS weaknesses. With dual MSc backgrounds in mathematical sciences and computing science, he brings deep cryptography and programming-language insight to practical exploit development and defensive research. Based in the Randstad, he combines academic rigor with hands-on offensive testing across embedded, enterprise and consumer systems—often finding impactful, non-obvious attack paths across complex environments.
16 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Mathematical Sciences, Master of Science (MSc), Mathematical Sciences at Utrecht UniversityBachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics at Universiteit UtrechtGymnasium, Gymnasium at Marnix Gymnasium
English, Dutch
Github Skills (176)
travis10
gps10
credit-card10
xmpp10
finance10
sha10
adium10
travis-ci10
sec9
get-started9
openstreetmap9
mesh9
ledger9
linux9
open-hardware9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
xmpp-observatory/xmppoke-frontend
Sep 2013 - Sep 2016
Web-based user interface for xmppoke.
Contributions:476 commits in 3 years
user-interfaceweb-based
xnyhps/capsdb
Mar 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:29 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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