That’s me
A lot of people ask me where my nickname - eightBEC or 8BEC - is coming from.
When I was 13 years old, I started to get interested in reverse engineering. It fascinated me to solve those complex puzzles :mag: like CrackMes or KeygenMes. One of the first tasks when analyzing a program, is to look for the entry point - that position where your debugger enters the code of your program.
8BEC is the hexadecimal representation of a part of this entry sequence for a function in assembly. Actually there is a 55 before the 8BEC instruction, but that was a little too unspecific for a nickname.
Both instructions ensure a proper setup of the stack frame for a function. This guarantees that function parameters and local variables can be accessed in a consistent way. More on this topic in this book.
55 push ebp ; save EBP
8BEC mov ebp, esp ; establish stack frame
That’s the story of how it all started - Fast Forward:
Currently I’m a Cognitive Engineer at IBM Watson in Germany working together with clients on innovative use cases cross industries. I have a strong background in NLP and Machine Learning and experienced in Java, Python and C.
Studies: Innovation and Management Master Programme at SMI and a Bachelor of Science from DHBW Stuttgart in Computer Science with a semster abroad in China.
Curious about everything related to technology, art, sustainability, politics and economics. I think all of this is somehow related and it’s important that we focus on those relationships rather than having a tunnel view on a specific field on interest.
Articles & Publications
For my latest publications take a look at my Google Scholar profile.
Projects
Some of my electronics and 3D printing projects can be found on my old blog.
For all open source software projects take a look at my github profile.