Yannick Landeck

Software Engineer & PhD Researcher

I am a software engineer passionate about building modern, secure software solutions. Currently completing my PhD at TU Munich, I specialise in DevOps, containerised architectures, and security risk assessment. I'm also deeply interested in how LLM-based coding agents are reshaping software engineering, shifting focus from raw implementation towards problem analysis, architecture design, and verification. I enjoy working in interdisciplinary teams, taking ownership, and finding pragmatic solutions to complex challenges. Outside of work, I play snooker and enjoy hiking in the mountains.

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Work Experience

Research Associate

fortiss GmbH – Research Institute of the Free State of Bavaria

Munich, Germany · Research group: Platform Engineering

2021 – present

Multi-year industry collaboration with Siemens AG to implement container security approaches
Moderation of workshops with SMEs on data-driven process optimisation
Design and implementation of data platforms in the finance, energy, and food industries

Student Research Assistant

Fraunhofer IEM

Paderborn, Germany · Research group: Industrial Data Analytics

2018 – 2021

Application Developer

Lenze Group

Hameln, Germany · Department: Application development for production systems

2016 – 2017

Dual Study Programme in Information Systems

Lenze Group

Hameln, Germany · Department: Application development for SAP systems

2013 – 2016

Education

Dr. rer. nat. / PhD in Computer Science

Technical University of Munich

Munich, Germany

2023 – present

Doctoral topic: “Knowledge Augmentation of Security Risk Identification for Container Deployments in Operational Technology Contexts”
Chair of Software and Systems Engineering, Prof. Pretschner

M.Sc. in Information Systems

University of Paderborn

Paderborn, Germany

2017 – 2020

Master’s thesis: “Methodology for Introducing AI-based Production Planning Systems in Enterprises”
Study abroad (Winter 2019) at the University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio

B.Sc. in Information Systems

Hochschule Weserbergland

Hameln, Germany

2013 – 2016

Dual study programme with a focus on application development

General Higher Education Entrance Qualification (Abitur)

Städtisches Gymnasium Löhne

Löhne, Germany

2005 – 2013

Skills

Technical

Docker Kubernetes Python Go JavaScript Java C# Git Databases (e.g. MySQL) Web servers (e.g. nginx, Flask) HTML / CSS Ontologies & Knowledge Graphs (RDF/OWL, SPARQL) Unity SAP ABAP Bash Linux Windows LaTeX Microsoft Office

Methodological

DevOps Platform Engineering CI/CD Container Security DevSecOps Knowledge Representation Data Science Data-driven Decision-making Agentic AI Concepts LLM Integration Methods Workshop Facilitation Presentation Skills

Teaching

Supervision of Bachelor's & Master's theses in Software Engineering and Security (TU Munich) Supervision of a programming lab on Agentic AI Systems (TU Munich)

Languages

German (native) English (C2) Spanish (A2) French (A1)

Publications

2026

An Ontology-Based Approach to Security Risk Identification of Container Deployments in OT Contexts

Proceedings of the 48th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice (ICSE SEIP 2026) , Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Landeck, Y.; Balta, D.; Wimmer, M.; Knierim, C.

2025

Knowledge-Augmented Security Risk Identification for OT Container Deployments

Joint Proceedings of the 24th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-C 2025) , Nara, Japan

Landeck, Y.; Balta, D.; Momcilovic, T. B.; Wimmer, M.; Knierim, C.

Software in the Manufacturing Industry: A Review of Security Challenges and Implications

Solutions and Technologies for Responsible Digitalization , Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, Switzerland , pp. 293–311

Landeck, Y.; Balta, D.; Wimmer, M.; Knierim, C.

Revised and extended version of the WI 2023 paper

2024

Assurance of Application Security on IIoT Platforms with Knowledge Augmentation

2024 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference Workshops (ACSAC Workshops) , Honolulu, HI, USA , pp. 108–119

Landeck, Y.; Balta, D.; Wimmer, M.; Knierim, C.

Software in the Manufacturing Industry: Emerging Security Challenge Areas for IIoT Platforms

Proceedings of the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice (ICSE SEIP 2024) , Lisbon, Portugal , pp. 118–121

Landeck, Y.; Balta, D.; Wimmer, M.; Knierim, C.

2023

Software in the Manufacturing Industry: A Review of Security Challenges and Implications

18th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI 2023) , Paderborn, Germany

Landeck, Y.; Balta, D.; Wimmer, M.; Knierim, C.