The Company
Analyzing complex software systems for which no source code is available has never been more important than today: From analyzing the growing flood of complex malware over re-engineering of legacy systems to the analysis of commercial software for security properties, the reverse engineering community was never busier than today.

Many programs are too complex to be fully understood by one person even if the source code is available. It is thus clear that fully understanding such programs is a very complex and difficult task.

We provide solutions that aim at helping the software analyst to understand the complex relations that exist in modern software and to boost his productivity. We understand that the key to many problems in software analysis is proper visualization, and aim to build tools that make software analysis intuitive and easy (or at least easier).

Halvar Flake/Thomas Dullien

CEO and Head of Research Halvar has been working on topics related to reverse engineering (and vulnerability research) for the last 9 years. He has repeatedly presented innovative research in the realm of reverse engineering and code analysis at various renowned security conferences (RSA, Blackhat Briefings, CanSecWest, SSTIC, DIMVA). Aside from his research activity, he has taught classes on code analysis, reverse engineering and vulnerability research to employees of various government organizations and large software vendors. Halvar founded zynamics in 2004 in order to further research into automation of reverse engineering and code analysis.

Ero Carrera Ventura

Reverse Engineering Automation Research After several years at F-Secure as an AV researcher and some groundbreaking publications on automatic clustering (and family tree generation) of malware he joined zynamics to pursue further research on automation of reverse engineering tasks. His primary interests range from discrete mathematics through information theory to phylogenetics.

Sören Meyer-Eppler

Developer Sören has been working as a professional software developer for more than seven years - recently as a freelancer. At zynamics, he was the lead developer for the first version of zynamics BinNavi. Although zynamics BinNavi is a Java application, his primary passion still lies with C++. Sören is currently busy performing various bits and pieces of C++ akimbo on zynamics' graph algorithms and database structures. He could offer a very buzzword compliant list of technologies and programming languages he has used in his career but the acronym letter soup would probably bore any sane person to death (unless you are a recruiter groping for victims), so he'll spare you.

Evelyn Ebert

Administration As 'Jill of all trades' Evelyn is responsible for all things that are not dealt with on a day to day basis: from organizing zynamics' annual trainings class over managing the office logistics to taking care of the corporate design, she shoots trouble wherever it arises.

Nils Heumer

Developer After a professional training as a software developer Nils worked for more than 5 years in the scope of industrial image recognition. As a project manager for a German company he has been working on several projects with international participation. His preferred programming languages are C++, Java, MySQL and Halcon Script. Nils is responsible for the development of the user interfaces and graph visualization of all zynamics products.

Sabine Arndt-Ellerhold

Administration Having worked for NGOs before, Sabine recently joined our organization. Her priority core is our customer management. She is experienced in the field of business administration and therefore a very valuable asset for zynamics. Sabine keeps the office running and deals with the world outside of computer code.

Sebastian Porst

Developer Sebastian has thrown himself right into the development of BinNavi. Having done his diploma thesis on our upcoming type reconstruction engine, he brings extensive development knowledge and a fresh breeze into the team. Sebastian certainly contributes a lot to the technical as well as scientific discussion in the office. He will take BinNavi a step further.

Christian Blichmann

Developer & Maintenance VxClass Christian recently joined our team after having done his diploma on generating signatures for malware families. His core tasks are the maintenance of our VxClass and network infrastructure and the VxClass customer support. Soon he will start his PhD.

Felix Schuster

Werkstudent Besides his studies in IT Security at the Ruhr-University in Bochum, Felix works on the mobile device debugger for zynamics - our WinCE debugging is his task at the moment.