Fábio Maia

Expertise

• Firmware: bootloaders, Linux kernel, kernel modules, device drivers, device trees
• Operating Systems: GNU/Linux, Android (Init, Zygote, Bionic, SELinux)
• Hardware Security: ARM TrustZone, OP-TEE, Intel SGX Enclaves, Secure Boot
• Hardware Design: VHDL, RTL, Xilinx Vitis
• Reverse Engineering: Ghidra, hex editors, Linux tracing, C/C++, ARM Assembly, USB C
• Networking: TCP, TLS, HTTP, X.509, PKI (OpenSSL, Golang, Python)

Employment

2022-2025 Lead Reverse Engineer @ Bliq

• Reverse engineering TrustZone firmware, bootloaders, kernels, Android boot
• USB C specification, reverse engineering of USB protocols, flashing protocols
• AOSP build system (Make, Soong), SELinux policy, Init, Bionic libc, C/C++
• Linux kernel, kernel modules, device drivers, device trees

2020-2022 Reverse Engineer @ Bliq

• Developed Android emulators and Linux tooling for reverse engineering
• Reverse engineering Android, Google Play Services, and 3rd party applications
• TLS, PKI, X.509 (Python, OpenSSL, Golang)

2017-2018 Undergrad Research @ University of Aveiro

• IEETA Bioinformatics: Biomedical NLP, Java, Bash
• CIDMA Geometrix: Mathematics Pedagogy, JavaScript, Three.js, WebGL

Education

2024-2025 Free Electives, University of Aveiro

• Trusted Execution Environments (SGX, TrustZone, OP-TEE)
• Systems-on-Chip Codesign (VHDL, C/C++, Xilinx Vitis)
• Introduction to Electrotechnical Engineering

2017-2019 MSc, Computer Engineering, University of Aveiro

• CPU & GPU microarchitecture, CUDA kernel optimization, SoC Codesign (VHDL, C/C++)
• OS design, Linux libc, TLS, X.509
• Erasmus+ study Deep Learning (MATLAB, Python, Keras) and Advanced Databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, GIS, PostGIS)
• Transfer Learning VGG16/Inception/ResNet CNN (TensorFlow, 2x RTX 2080 Ti)

2014-2017 BSc, Computer Engineering, University of Aveiro

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

2007-2015 Open Source Contributor, MyBB

• Official Team Member, Community Support, Documentation
• Plugin Development (PHP, MySQL), Web Design (JavaScript, CSS, HTML)