# Daniel Blackwell

> SWE @ 🍎

Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Profile: https://flows.cv/danielblackwell

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer - Developer Security Tools (dynamic analysis) @ Apple
Jan 2025 – Present | Greater London, England, United Kingdom

### Ressearch Fellow @ UCL
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Greater London, England, United Kingdom

### PHD Student @ UCL
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 | Greater London, England, United Kingdom
My work was on applying fuzzing (an automated software testing technique) to the detection of confidential information leaks. I spent my final year looking at more general approaches to improving the efficiency of fuzzing. My published work can be found at: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VHjSSIAAAAAJ&hl=en.

### Senior Developer @ MakeSense Technology
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Helped improve existing development practices. Worked on rewriting bare-metal firmware, improving iOS bluetooth communications, database storage schema, and introduced automated deployment of an interactive dashboard. Note, this was a temporary position held between submitting my PhD thesis and completing the viva.

### Software Engineer @ Signal Biometrics
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 | Greater London, England, United Kingdom

### Software Engineer @ Signal Biometrics
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | London, United Kingdom

### Systems Architecture Software Engineer @ Arm
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Cambridge, United Kingdom
Working under the architecture technology group in the debug and trace team modelling future modifications to the ARM trace encoding protocol.

### Software Engineer Intern @ The Sleep School
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | London, United Kingdom
Working in house to develop the Objective-C iOS and Java Android applications maintained by the company.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Poptacular Ltd.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | London, United Kingdom
Working originally with the aim to analyse advertising revenues and optimise, I also worked on updating mobile applications written in C# (Unity cross platform engine), native Objective C iOS and Android Java.


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy - PhD in Cybersecurity - Computer Science
UCL

### Master of Engineering - MEng in Computer Science
UCL

### Study Abroad in Computer Science
The Chinese University of Hong Kong


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dan-blackwell

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Source: https://flows.cv/danielblackwell
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/danielblackwell/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-05