Tom Van Goethem
Software Engineer - Chrome Privacy at DistriNet Research Unit @KU Leuven
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolTom Van Goethem is a software engineer and researcher with 12 years focused on browser security and privacy, currently shaping user-facing privacy controls and reviewing Open Web Platform features for Chrome at Google. He has authored 20+ security and privacy papers—10+ at top-tier venues—with several awards and real-world impact, including contributions that led to browser hardening. At KU Leuven and as a visiting researcher internationally, he specialized in detecting and preventing browser side-channels and large-scale empirical evaluations of web threats. He is a hands-on contributor to the Chromium project, notably implementing canvas fingerprinting protections by adding pixel-noise algorithms and robust feature-flag integrations. Based in Leuven, Belgium, Tom blends rigorous academic research with production-grade engineering to translate novel vulnerability discoveries into deployable privacy defenses.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master, Master at KU LeuvenProfessional Bachelor, Professional Bachelor at Katholieke Hogeschool 'Sint-Lieven', Gent
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Github Skills (6)
unit-testing10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
feature-flags9
algorithms8
image-processing8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
chromium/chromium
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily contributed to the Chromium project by implementing and refining features related to canvas fingerprinting protection. They worked on adding noise to canvas pixels to prevent fingerprinting, including the core algorithm, unit tests, and feature flags. Their work also involved improving the noise algorithm to ensure alpha channels of pixels remained non-zero and adding integration for feature flags.
chromiumgithub-mirrorchrome
belion-choclates/belion-choclates.github.io
Sep 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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