Tobias Scharnowski
CEO & Co-Founder
Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolTobias Scharnowski is a vulnerability researcher and entrepreneur with eight years of embedded security experience, now CEO and co-founder of Fuzzware and Research Lead at CISPA. He pioneered automatic hardware modeling during his PhD, enabling fuzz testing of embedded firmware without physical devices or source code—a technique that underpins Fuzzware’s approach to securing automotive, medical, and industrial products. A seasoned competition hacker and trainer, Tobias earned Master of Pwn at Pwn2Own Automotive and has demonstrated multiple world-first remote code execution chains against critical infrastructure and EV charging systems. He regularly presents and teaches practical fuzzing and attack techniques to practitioners, blending deep research with real-world exploit validation. Based in Bochum, Germany, he combines academic rigour with startup execution, turning novel research into deployable compliance and security tooling.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS IT Security / Networks and Systems, Master of Science - MS IT Security / Networks and Systems at Ruhr University BochumBachelor of Science - BS Business Informatics, Bachelor of Science - BS Business Informatics at Fachhochschule der Wirtschaft (FHDW)
Github Skills (64)
contiki10
contiki-ng10
6lowpan10
rpl10
qemu9
coverage9
instrumentation9
unicorn9
zx-spectrum9
iot9
introspection9
slot9
680009
fuzzing8
stability8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
fuzzware-fuzzer/unicorn
Jan 2022 - Feb 2025
Unicorn CPU emulator framework (ARM, AArch64, M68K, Mips, Sparc, PowerPC, RiscV, S390x, X86)
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
emulatorglibcarm64cpus390x
Scepticz/CTFs
Oct 2017 - Oct 2020
Contributions:3 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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