Thi Thuy Linh Nguyen

Researcher | Engineer

France

About

I am an engineering professional with a Master’s degree in Cloud Computing and Security from Soongsil University, South Korea, and a degree of Excellence in Engineering from Vietnam. Currently, I work as a Researcher at the University of Trento, Italy, focusing on microservice security, container hardening. With hands-on experience in backend development, cloud technologies, and cybersecurity, I have contributed to API security platforms, intrusion detection systems, federated learning, and encryption protocols. My expertise spans Kotlin, Golang, Python, AI frameworks (PyTorch), Kubernetes, Docker, and cryptographic security solutions. 🔹 Key Areas of Expertise: ✅ Cloud & Backend Development – Microservices, API Security, Data Streaming ✅ Cybersecurity & Encryption – Seccomp, eBPF, E2E Encryption ✅ Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning – Anomaly Detection, Federated Learning ✅ DevOps & Container Security – Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD Pipelines I am passionate about building robust, scalable, and secure software solutions. Open to collaboration, innovation, and opportunities to drive impactful technological advancements. 📩 Let’s connect and collaborate!

Experience

  • Researcher at l'INSA Centre Val de Loire
    Apr 2026 - Present · 3 mos

  • Researcher at Università di Trento
    Jan 2025 - Apr 2026 · 1 yr 4 mos

    • AI Agents Security: subjective logic; RAG • Verifiable and privacy-preserving microservices security: ZKPs; proof-of-execution; blockchain

  • Software Engineer at Softfreak
    Jan 2024 - Jan 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

    • Started the API Management Security project from scratch and analysed Akto Open Source. • Designed the architecture and core logic for the backend and frontend systems to interact via API. • Developed 3 data collection agents (Nginx, eBPF, and mirroring) and 4 analysis engines integrated with Kafka and databases setup. • Created a test case list to benchmark the system with 10,000 concurrent users using JMeter and Postman.

  • Cloud Security Researcher at Soongsil University
    Mar 2022 - Feb 2024 · 2 yrs

    • Researched Host-Based Intrusion Detection Systems (HIDS) in container environments, utilizing AI-based approaches (LSTM models) for attack detection with system call datasets. Publish research paper at the Mobisec 2023 conference. • Developed a prototype for Seccomp Profile generation by combining static and dynamic analysis to reduce the attack surface of containerized applications. Publish research paper at the Mobisec 2022 conference. • Applied data balancing techniques to improve the performance of Federated Learning (FL) models in heterogeneous environments on public FL datasets (e.g., CIFAR-10, FEMNIST). Publish research paper at the CUTE-CSA 2022 conference.

  • Research And Development Engineer at Ginnovations
    Aug 2018 - Mar 2022 · 3 yrs 8 mos

    • Developed MQTT security patch for a notification system using Mosquitto, ensuring for 10,000 concurrent users. • Designed and developed the scalable E2E protocol (inspired by Signal protocol opensource) and the Android, iOS app for XOR phones. • Built a mornitoring system for XOR phones using Logstash, Kibana, and ELK Stacks. • Designed and implemented a C library for a secure messaging protocol using the Hybrid Encryption Scheme (ECIES) for XOR Phone. • Built a mobile app to sync contacts on non-smartphones using audio signals and evaluating performance under Android & XOR phones.