Thomas Dullien, Also Known as Halvar Flake, Says He Is Joining OpenAI

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No Name Podcast No Name International 2025-09-02 01:27:45 Vlad Styran # No Name Podcast with Thomas Dullien No Name Podcast with Thomas Dullien 0:00 / 0:00 Thomas Dullien, (a.k.a. Halvar Flake) is a mathematician-turned-cybersecurity luminary and engineer. He co-founded zynamics, the reverse‑engineering tools company behind BinDiff, BinNavi, and VxClass, all of which had major impact on binary analysis and were later integrated into Google following its acquisition of zynamics in 2011. He subsequently served as a Staff Engineer at Google Project Zero, contributing to foundational research in software security and exploitability modeling. [...] In recent years, he shifted focus to computational efficiency and cloud economics. Which brought Thomas to co‑founding optimyze.cloud, a company dedicated to reducing compute waste and improving cloud cost‑efficiency, driven by the end of Moore’s Law and the economics of SaaS infrastructure. The company was acquired by Elastic in 2021. Reso

READ MORE Ringzer0 COUNTERMEASURE Advisory Board Members Advisory Board ## Ringzer0 COUNTERMEASURE Advisory Board Members An elite advisory board of cybersecurity veterans from government research, top security firms, major tech companies, and academia, bringing serious expertise and credibility to the event. READ MORE Great! Next, complete checkout for full access to Ringzer0 Welcome back! You've successfully signed in You've successfully subscribed to Ringzer0 Success! Your account is fully activated, you now have access to all content Success! Your billing info has been updated Your billing was not updated [...] HOME FALL//2026 SPRING//2027 REGISTRATION ABOUT ARCHIVE NEWSLETTER Ringzer0 HOME FALL//2026 SPRING//2027 REGISTRATION ABOUT ARCHIVE NEWSLETTER BOOK NOW ## Advisory Board // Thomas Dullien "Halvar Flake" Entrepreneur // Countermeasure Advisory Board Member [...] After working at Google Project Zero, he cofounded startup optimyze, which was acquired by

+ I’ve started startups twice, and in both cases delivered products that provided capabilities that were unparalleled by any competitor and ahead of the their time. + The products were beloved by users and gained a lot of mindshare with their specialist users. + Product conception, design, and engineering (BinDiff, BinNavi, VxClass) - going all the way from idea to ‘’bringing to market’’ + Building and leading engineering teams + Training cybersecurity experts on vulnerability discovery, exploit development, reverse engineering and malware analysis + Technical roadmapping to improve the defensive posture of a very large organisation + Transitioning a small team (9 people) through an acquisition; integrating the team & technology in a very large organisation [...] Update November 2021: We’ve been acquired by Elastic. Some of my prouder moments on Twitter are Rob Joyce praising my Cycon talk and Jaana Dogan (AWS lead for observability) praising prodfiler. ## Fields of exper

I am excited to welcome Thomas Dullien (Halvar Flake) to the Noise2Signal podcast! This episode's title was inspired by Thomas Ptacek’s excellent write-up, "Vulnerability Research is Cooked," which is equal parts inspiring and depressing. Inspiring because finding vulnerabilities in codebases has become so accessible; depressing because we risk losing a generation of experts skilled in the fine art of reverse engineering, which, as Thomas notes, is fundamentally an exercise in endurance. Fortunately, Thomas Dullien brings a much more uplifting perspective on the future of cyber offense and defense with AI. His take: a human equipped with a tool will continue to outperform the tool alone for the foreseeable future. [...] Agree & Join LinkedIn By clicking Continue to join or sign in, you agree to LinkedIn’s User Agreement, Privacy Policy, and Cookie Policy. View profile for Mehul Revankar [...] Having spent the early part of my career in vulnerability research before founding Quantro S

Halvar Flake @halvarflake 2h Made with AI 2.1K user avatar Halvar Flake @halvarflake 12h I have a personal update: Next monday, I will be starting at @OpenAI working on better cyber (which will also entail some efficiency work). I'm pretty excited about the things I will learn and the things we will do. 88K user avatar Halvar Flake @halvarflake 14h Maddie is great. If you are in a position where you \can\ hire remotely, do it. user avatar Maddie Stone @maddiestone Aug 3 [...] Log inSign up Halvar Flake user avatar Halvar Flake Choose disfavour where obedience does not bring honour. I do math. And was once asked by R. Morris Sr. : "For whom?" @(/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection) thomasdullien.github.io/about/ Joined June 2008 2,837 Following45.9K Followers RepliesRepliesMediaMedia Pinned user avatar Halvar Flake @halvarflake Nov 4, 2019 I will have to print & frame this tweet :-)) user avatar Rob Joyce