Hello and welcome! My name is Marion Marschalek, I’m a security engineer
with a deep passion for reverse engineering, and have been in this field
since 2011. I hold a bachelors and masters degree in Information Security
from University of Applied Sciences St. Poelten, Austria. Thats also where
I’m from, Austria. Its a beautiful country, you should go visit.
I’m also a long distance runner, see above. I like challenges.
I started my career in anti-virus with the Austrian AV company Ikarus Security Software.
As a malware analyst I discovered my passion for binary analysis, learned
how reverse engineering malware in reality is like building puzzles. I
also spent time in incident response, and later switched to offensive
security and cloud security. I spent three wonderful years working for
Intel’s STORM team in Oregon, learning about vulnerabilities on a
hardware level. I joined AWS in 2020, to focus on threat detection in
the cloud, and worked with the AWS GuardDuty team for four years fending
off Linux focussed cloud attacks.
In February 2025 I decided to venture out on my own, and here we are,
Hack & Cheese was born. Hack & Cheese is my professional outlet to offer
reverse engineering consulting and training services. Contact me with any
inquiries. I’m working out of Portland, Oregon, United States.