about

Andreas Zechner, BSc MSc

My name is Andreas Zechner and I’m an information security professional and software engineer. Since more than two decades I am constantly building a wide skill set in different IT domains and my key skills involve vulnerability assessments, pen-testing, automating things and social engineering techniques as well as security awareness trainings.

Over the years I created awesome and sometimes weird stuff with different programming languages, frameworks, hardware and tools. I’ve built and broken corporate software for the web / desktop / mobile / IoT / embedded and I have a big passion for teaching and talking about various information technology topics.

My love to break and break into things, brought me step by step into information security when I first started to work as an software engineer with focus on automated testing, quality assurance and usability engineering.

One of my key goals in life is to automate everything (when it makes sense) and to ‘keep things simple stupid’ (when it does not cut the overall experience).