Summary
Thomas Bitzberger is a low-level software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in virtualization, kernel development, and security, currently a Member of Technical Staff on VMware’s VMKernel team in Paris. His background blends research and practice—from student-researcher work and CTF participation at EPITA’s LSE to internships and production roles at VMware—giving him deep hands-on expertise in x86 kernel programming and hypervisor internals. He has a proven teaching streak, having taught kernel and C courses to engineering students, which sharpens his ability to explain complex systems and mentor peers. Past roles also show pragmatic versatility, including industrial protocol reverse-engineering and automating ML-based invoice processing, signaling comfort across security, networking, and applied machine learning. Notably, he transitioned from academic research into core hypervisor development at VMware, bringing a security-minded, low-level systems perspective to production virtualization.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Informatique