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Wien, Österreich

Wien, Österreich

Lead tool designer and developer responsible for:- Speeding up feedback loops and increasing productivity by designing and developing an IntelliJ IDEA plugin, providing references and on-the-fly decryption of internal software packages, in addition to a unique live preview of Freemarker templates.- Replacing and improving the discontinued Windows Security Compliance Manager by designing and implementing a REST-based tool with an Angular frontend for creating, manipulating, versioning, documenting and applying Windows Group Policies in a human-readable format.- Reducing manual test effort by over 90% by implementing a flexible verification framework to assert security-related Windows configurations like ACLs, Group Policies, service configurations, registry keys, etc., resulting in an extensive report used as key metric for Windows hardening progress during the weekly standup.- Redesigning internal Sphinx documentation and improving search result accuracy by implementing custom tags and elements.Leveraged knowledge: Java, IntelliJ IDEA Plugin Development, TDD, Angular, Typescript, HTML, CSS, Windows Group Policies, Freemarker, Sphinx

Qualitative design study with 12 non-expert smart home users, in the research fields of Usable Security and Network Forensics, including in-depth semi-structured interviews and Participatory Design exercises.Research question:"How can a household’s outgoing network traffic be visualized in a usable way, giving non-expert users insight into the communication behavior of their smart devices, enabling them to independently identify potentially unwanted behavior and make privacy-related decisions on their own?"Contributions: - Novel insights into how users envision usable control over their smart devices’ network traffic - UI and UX design guidelines for usable transparency and control - Implementation and real-world evaluation of a novel tool based on the identified guidelines

Diplom-Ingenieur, Software Engineering/Internet Computing, Abschluss Mit Auszeichnung.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Software & Information Engineering