I’m Andreas Happe
I care about Security.
In parallel to my studies, I started to work at the Austrian Institue of Technology (AIT), initially as part of a EU FP2 Project on Quantum Key Distribution, later mostly on EU Horizon 2020 projects focusing on secure data storage andidentity management in the cloud.
Not forgetting my roots, over time I became more and more involved in AppSec, Developer Trainings, and consulting roles.
To explore this aspect of mine, I taught various security lectures at the FH/Technikum Wien and became an OWASP leader, both for a local chapter (Vienna, then Klagenfurt) and a Project.
This never felt enough. So in 2022, I quit my day job and enrolled in a PhD program at the Technical University of Vienna. My focus lies on using AI/ML for offensive security as well as hackers' decision making processes in general. To finance this, I have become a freelance security consultant accompaning softare devs/companies on their road towards security self-reliance. Secretly I hope to bridge academia and industry through my work.
To see more information about my squiggly journey, see my my CV (github)or checkout my LinkedIn Profile.