Thomas Houhou
Security Researcher at Indépendant
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolThomas Houhou is a security researcher and founder of DeepProof with a decade of hands-on experience finding vulnerabilities across smart contracts, blockchain nodes, web apps and AI systems. Based in Zürich and currently pursuing a Master's in Cyber Security at ETH Zürich, he has a strong independent track record through bug bounties and responsible disclosures for organizations such as Chainlink, OpenAI, Anthropic, X, MetaMask, Swisscom and the US DoD. His findings include a CVE for Project Jupyter and dozens of accepted reports for Swisscom and X, and his novel web-attack research was highlighted in PortSwigger’s "Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques of 2024." A regular speaker and blogger, he combines offensive testing with practical remediation guidance and has been invited to brief internal security teams on his discoveries. Notably, his work has influenced security guidelines for major open-source projects, demonstrating impact beyond individual bug fixes.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneBaccalauréat scientifique, Baccalauréat scientifique at Établissement Le Bon SauveurMaster's degree, Cyber Security, Master's degree, Cyber Security at ETH Zürich
French, English, Chinese
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Github Skills (200)
command-line-interface10
linux10
youtube10
api10
rust10
cli10
git10
vscode10
open-source10
driver10
command-line10
game-engine9
qt9
godot9
opengl9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
vypxl/sortviz
Mar 2019 - Jan 2022
A C++/OpenGL/SDL sorting algorithm visualizer
Contributions:54 commits, 21 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 10 months
cppopenglsdlsorting-algorithms
vypxl/dotfiles
Jun 2019 - Feb 2023
Contributions:144 commits, 224 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 9 months
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