Fábio Maia

Computer Engineer & Security Researcher

Firmware: bootloaders, device trees (DTB/DTS), TrustZone, baremetal
Operating Systems: kernels (Linux, seL4), Android (Init, Zygote, Bionic, SELinux)
Reverse Engineering: Java, C/C++, ARM, ImHex, Ghidra, JADX, Frida
Hardware Design: VHDL, RTL, Xilinx Vitis, USB C
Hardware Security: TrustZone, OP-TEE, Intel SGX, Secure Boot
Networking: TCP, TLS, HTTP, X.509, PKI (OpenSSL, Golang, Python)

Experience

2020-2025 Reverse Engineer @ Bliq

Reverse engineering TrustZone firmware, bootloaders, kernels, Android userspace
AOSP build system, SELinux policy, Init, Bionic libc, C/C++
Linux kernel build, kernel modules, device tree (DTB/DTS), device drivers
Hardware reverse engineering, USB C protocols, flashing protocols
TLS, PKI, X.509 (Python, OpenSSL, Golang)

2017-2018 Undergrad Research @ University of Aveiro

Published How to Choose the Best Tool for Each Task (Code Quality, Biomedical NLP).
Developed LEMA (Three.js, WebGL) for early childhood education (ECD) teaching mathematics to children.
Forked university LaTeX dissertation template into a new official location on GitHub

2007-2015 Early Career: Forum Software & Web Development

Built plugins and themes for MyBB forum software (PHP, MySQL, JavaScript)
Self-taught web development and Linux system administration starting at age 12
Community contributions: technical support, documentation, and tutorials

Education

2017-2019 MSc Computer Engineering @ University of Aveiro

CPU/GPU microarchitecture, CUDA programming, SoC Codesign (VHDL, C/C++)
Cybersecurity (X.509 PKI, TLS, AES, SHA, RSA)
Deep Learning (MATLAB, TensorFlow), Transfer Learning (VGG16, Inception, ResNet)

2014-2017 BSc Computer Engineering @ University of Aveiro

Digital hardware design in VHDL, FPGA, Altera, Xilinx
Embedded systems, PIC32 microcontroller programming, Cisco ISP networking
OS design, Linux userspace programming, Linux filesystems
MIPS CPU architecture, MIPS assembly, C/C++, Java