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Marius van Zundert

user marius.vanzundert@cerberos.dev uptime 20+ years :: engineering + offensive security kernel ethical-hacker v6.4 (secure-by-design)

Engineer & Ethical Hacker based in Tilburg, NL. Co-founder at Cerberos, Security Officer at Tilaa. Building resilient, secure-by-design systems across Rust, Go, Python, and Laravel — then red-teaming them to prove it.

> top -b -n1 | head -8 active processes
Running processes
PID COMMAND CPU% MEM% STATUS
1 web-platforms 42% 18% running
2 offensive-security 35% 28% running
3 systems-engineering 28% 22% running
4 infrastructure 18% 35% running
5 security-audit 12% 9% idle
PID 1-5 of 42 load average: 0.24 0.31 0.18 web-platforms: 20yr · offensive-security: 7yr · systems-engineering: 7yr · infrastructure: 8yr · security-audit: 6yr
> tree ./usr/lib/tech-stack 10 packages

Systems & Tooling

RustMemory-safe systems, security tooling
GoConcurrent operator tools, CLI
PythonExploit dev, automation, security
RubyMetasploit modules, scripting

Web & Platforms

PHPLaravel, secure web platforms
Vue.jsFrontend, reactive interfaces

Infrastructure

MariadbPrimary database, migrations
K8sContainer orchestration, clusters
DockerContainerization, Distrobox
Fedora(atomic)Cosmic, daily driver
> cat ./about.md bio & contact

About

I’m a Dutch engineer and ethical hacker based in Tilburg, NL — 20+ years deep in systems, infrastructure, and offensive security. When I’m not building secure-by-design platforms or red-teaming them to prove it, I’m probably deep in a Rust compiler battle, tweaking my Hyprland rice, or reading about adversarial machine learning.

My approach: understand the system better than anyone else, then break it before someone else does.

Daily drivers: macOS, Fedora Atomic (Cosmic), Arch Linux (Hyprland, Sway).

> cat /var/log/career.log | timeline 10 entries
2025
2025 –present active

Security Officer

Tilaa

As Security Officer, responsible for strategic and technical security posture. Building a resilient security framework that balances regulatory compliance with high-performance cloud architecture.

  • Security Architecture & Design: Designing, implementing, and maintaining hardened security architecture for cloud infrastructure
  • Identity & Access Governance: Overseeing IAM systems administration and auditing to enforce zero-trust principles
  • Vulnerability & Threat Management: Managing continuous security scanning and driving technical remediation
  • Compliance: Ensuring adherence to ISO 27001, ISO 9001, PCI-DSS, and GDPR frameworks
  • Incident Response: Coordinating incident response and performing post-mortem analyses

2019
2019 –present active

Co-Founder

Cerberos

Co-founder of Cerberos, partnering in all aspects of the business from high-level security consultancy to hands-on engineering of secure systems. Grounded in a "Secure by Design" philosophy balancing offensive security testing with resilient software development.

Offensive Security & Execution:

  • Conducting end-to-end security audits, red team operations, and penetration testing
  • Developing specialized security tools including custom Python exploit scripts and Ruby Metasploit modules
  • Performing manual and automated security code audits with deep focus on PHP/Laravel vulnerabilities
  • Delivering guest lectures and speaking engagements on security awareness and ethical hacking

Multi-Stack Engineering & Systems:

  • Building memory-safe utilities in Rust and high-concurrency operator tools in Go
  • Developing scalable web platforms using Laravel and Vue.js with integrations for AFAS, Exact, Vimeo
  • Executing complex data migrations from legacy MySQL/MariaDB to PostgreSQL
  • Building hardened DevSecOps deployment pipelines with automated testing