Willie Victor Email & Phone Number

Fully Remote

• The Artificial Intelligence Centre of Excellence (AICE), based in Helsinki, develops machine learning related technologies for use in F-Secure's products.
• Member of Project Blackfin, performing research into collaborative learning and distributed AI in cyber security domain
• Provided domain expertise for data selection and feature engineering during model development, as well as performance validation criteria
• Collaborator on academic research into potential nature and implications of future AI-based cyber security threats
• Contributor to EU SAPPAN project: sappan-project.eu

Fully Remote

• The Detection and Response R&D (DRRD) unit develops technologies used in F-Secure's enterprise security products.
• Developed on-demand host network filtering module for incident response operations. Solution provided packet-level filtering in Linux userspace (requirement) using nftables, iptables, and nfqueue kernel components..

Johannesburg, South Africa

• F-Secure Corporation acquired MWR InfoSecurity in 2018, and operated it under the F-Secure Consulting brand.
• Established and lead Cyber Incident Response unit for South Africa region
• Participated in or led response to major cyber security incidents for clients in the banking, financial services, telecoms, and media sectors
• Performed extensive digital forensic analysis of host, network, and Windows domain data, as well as analysis and reverse engineering of advanced Windows malware
• Presented technical- and executive level cyber incident simulations and training
• Active participant in commercial development of adjacent services

Johannesburg, South Africa

MWR InfoSecurity was acquired by F-Secure Corporation around 2018, and ceased to operate under that name in 2019. See description of "Senior Consultant and Team Lead - F-Secure Consulting" for role summary.

Johannesburg, South Africa

• Information security consultant and penetration tester
• Active in the Application and Network Security fields
• Clients in banking, financial services, and telecoms sectors

Pretoria, South Africa

• Keystone offers turnkey engineering solutions, including embedded software development, custom hardware design, IoT, and back-end, web, and mobile applications.
• Lead engineer on various software and firmware projects, using C, C++, Python, Lua
• Porting embedded Linux kernel component to custom hardware - bootloaders, device drivers, networking components
• Creation and maintenance of in-house embedded Linux base, replacing uclibc with glibc
• Compact byte-level protocol design and implementation

Pretoria, South Africa

• Feature development and maintenance on firmware of existing products
• Prototype assembly and testing