Curriculum Vitae

Profile

  • Systems Engineer combining a deep background in computational physics with hands-on experience developing secure, real-time software for safety-critical embedded systems.
  • Expertise in C/C++, real-time concurrent programming (RTOS), and hardware-in-the-loop debugging, coupled with secure coding practices and vulnerability analysis.
  • Deep mathematical and algorithmic foundation in numerical PDEs, stochastic methods, and large-scale physical simulations.
  • Experienced with AI systems, from training physics-informed neural networks via PyTorch to designing multi-agent systems and workflows.

Work Experience

Embedded Software Engineer
Elektrobit, Austria May 2020 – Present
  • Developed MISRA-C conformant software modules that implement security protocols (TLS, IPsec/IKE, MACsec/MKA) for automotive Ethernet stacks shipped in cars worldwide.
  • Conducted hands-on security reviews and penetration testing on embedded targets. Evaluated threat vectors and scored vulnerabilities (CVSS) to harden the software stack.
  • Executed unit, integration, and system-level testing. Applied static analysis, fuzzing, and code coverage analysis. Ensured ASPICE-compliant requirement traceability.
  • Debugged (Trace32, GDB), profiled, and optimized real-time preemption and concurrency on automotive ECUs.
  • Maintained CI/CD release pipelines (Jenkins, Git) and customer support for integration and production.
University Assistant
Vienna University of Technology Oct 2017 – May 2020
  • Lectured bachelor/master courses and supervised thesis projects in computational physics.
  • Developed a general-purpose high-performance simulation program for quantum many-body systems.
Project Assistant (PhD)
Vienna University of Technology Mar 2014 – Oct 2017

Simulation of laser-matter interaction — novel many-body methods, numerical computing (C++/Fortran), HPC clusters.

Student Apprentice
Austrian Institute of Technology Summers 2009 & 2010

CFD and heat transfer simulations (Star-CCM+) of water cooling systems in EV power electronics (2010) and moisture droplet condensation in vehicle headlight chambers (2009).

Visits

Company Visit
Argus Cyber Security, Tel Aviv Mar 2024 – Jun 2024

Engineered of TCAM-based hardware-accelerated firewalls for high-performance packet filtering and security policy lookups.

Research Visit
University of Tokyo Oct 2016 – Apr 2017

Research collaboration on advanced propagation techniques to handle strong-field excitation of heavy atoms.

Education

Additional Graduate Coursework (Master Computer Engineering)
Vienna University of Technology 2023 – 2025

Focus: Stochastic and numerical methods. ~20 courses completed.

PhD (Dr. techn.)
Vienna University of Technology 2014 – 2017
  • Thesis: Time-dependent two-particle reduced density matrix theory: application to multi-electron atoms and molecules in strong laser pulses.
  • Supervisors: Joachim Burgdörfer and Iva Brezinova (Institute for Theoretical Physics).
Master Technical Physics
Vienna University of Technology 2011 – 2014

Focus: Computational physics and simulation.

Bachelor Technical Physics
Vienna University of Technology 2006 – 2011

Focus: Semiclassical and classical mechanics.

Teaching

2018–19 Lecturer Statistical Mechanics 1/2 · Analytical Mechanics
2011–13 Tutor Statistical Mechanics 1/2 · Quantum Mechanics 1/2
2009–10 Tutor Electrodynamics · Quantum Mechanics 1/2 · Mathematical Methods of Physics

Languages

German Native
English Fluent
Italian Basic

Technical Expertise

Languages
C/C++ (10+ years) Python Fortran Java JS Bash
Embedded & Systems
RTOS STM32 HSM Trace32 (debugging, profiling) GDB Assembly
Security & Net
Applied cryptography IPsec/MACsec TLS CVSS OpenSSL strongSwan
AI & Robotics
PyTorch CUDA ROS 2 SLAM LLM APIs MCP Agentic frameworks
Infrastructure
Linux Docker Jenkins Git CMake/Make CI/CD

Interests & Activities

FPV Quadcopters (Build & Flight) Custom PCB Design Observational Astronomy Combination Puzzles Wakeboarding