Victor Mello
Senior Security Engineer at Microsoft
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolVictor Mello is a Senior Security Engineer based in Berlin with 14 years of hands-on experience building, breaking, and hardening systems across application and kernel layers. He has held senior roles at Microsoft, Delivery Hero and other tech firms, combining pragmatic security operations with deep reverse-engineering and kernel-level programming expertise—evidenced by contributions to an LKM rootkit project ported across Linux kernels and architectures. Victor pairs practical vulnerability scanning and backend work (improving CPE/CVE correlation and UI rendering) with low-level exploit and stealth techniques, giving him a rare full-stack security perspective. Driven by curiosity and continuous learning, he thrives in teams tackling privacy, freedom, and hard technical challenges.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree (incomplete), Computer Science, Bachelor's degree (incomplete), Computer Science at Universidade da Cidade
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (33)
ruby-rails10
vulnerability-scanners10
audit10
rails10
kernel-module10
c1110
ruby10
c1710
kernel10
vulnerability-assessment10
audit-logging10
code-auditing10
auditing10
audit-trail10
security-txt9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
m0nad/Diamorphine
Nov 2013 - May 2021
LKM rootkit for Linux Kernels 2.6.x/3.x/4.x/5.x/6.x (x86/x86_64 and ARM64)
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:44 commits, 7 PRs, 22 pushes in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Victor primarily contributed to a Linux Kernel Module (LKM) rootkit, modifying system call tables and implementing features to hide processes, files, and potentially gain root privileges. Their work involved porting the rootkit to various kernel versions and architectures. They demonstrated a strong focus on kernel-level programming and security-related modifications.
kernelpentestlinux-kernelkernelsrootkit
m0nad/Multidorker
Oct 2014 - Aug 2022
Contributions:5 commits, 1 push in 7 years 11 months
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