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Thomas Dullien

Performance & Security

Zurich

Overview 

Thomas Dullien is currently a Distinguished Software Engineer at Elastic, with a background as the CEO and Head of Research at zynamics GmbH. He has expertise in reverse engineering, malware analysis, and penetration testing, and has a strong track record in the cybersecurity sector, having previously worked as a Staff Engineer at Google. Highlights of Thomas Dullien's career include founding and leading zynamics GmbH as CEO, as well as his current role at Elastic as a Distinguished Software Engineer. His expertise lies in areas such as reverse engineering, malware analysis, and penetration testing within the cybersecurity field.

Work Experience 

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Elastic

  • Distinguished Software Engineer

    2021 - 2024

    https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211102006144/en/Elastic-Completes-the-Acquisition-of-Optimyze

Elastic builds software to make data usable in real time and at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases.

Raised $161,999,996.00 from Employee Stock Option Fund.

elastic.co
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optimyze

  • Co-Founder & CEO

    2018 - 2021

Google

  • Staff Engineer

    2016 - 2018

    After the sabbatical, I returned into a purely technical position in Project Zero.

n/a

  • Travel / Surfing / Mathematics for a year

    2015 - 2016

    I am taking a year away from everything to travel, surf, and read up on some mathematics.

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Google

  • Staff Engineer

    2011 - 2015

    We got acquired in March 2011. Now we can do some real computation. Expansion of previous work at Google scale.

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

google.com

zynamics GmbH

  • CEO / Head of Research

    2006 - 2011

    We had to rename SABRE Security to zynamics GmbH due to a trademark dispute with a flight ticket software company. Conceived & led the creation of more products (BinNavi, VxClass, BinCrowd), won (with Ero Carrera) Germany's second largest privately financed research prize for our work on VxClass, ran trainings, grew the company, and helped our products become the product-of-choice in their particular niche.

  • CEO & Founder

    2004 - 2011

    Founded the company and grew it (with Ero Carrera as cofounder) from 2004 to a successful acquisition in 2011 through Google. Lots of technical R&D, training of highly specialized customers, but also "classical" CEO - leading & growing a team, dealing with the finances and much more.

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