Experience

DurationFirmDesignationResponsibilities
July 2025 - TodayPaderborn UniversityResearch AssociateWorking on fuzzing (fuzz testing), understanding fuzzing internal mechanisms and improving them. Contributor to PhASAR, an open-source LLVM based static analysis (SAST) framework.
Nov 2020 - June 2025Fraunhofer IEMResearch AssociateWorked on combining static application security testing (SAST), dynamic symbolic execution, and dynamic application security testing (DAST) methodologies.
    
Jul 2018 - Sep 2020Fraunhofer IEMStudent Research AssistantContributed to CrySL (Domain Specific Language to specify Cryptographic misuses), CogniCrypt (is an Eclipse plugin that supports Java developers in using cryptographic APIs efficiently)
    
Jul 2015 - Feb 2018GAIN CreditSoftware EngineerGained experience in Python, Django, MySQL, and Docker by working as a full-stack developer in an agile working environment