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Zürich, ZH, CH

Remote First, US

As Director of Engineering, I lead and inspire teams in developing robust, scalable Rust-based backend systems and the related frontend user experiences, emphasizing technical excellence and collaborative leadership. My role entails strategic engagement with internal stakeholders across product, operations, and engineering, and aligning with external.

Remote First, US

Remote First, US

Following the growth and scale of Kraken and the team, I took on additional teams in the core backend. Continued architecture and development of distributed core backend systems. Developed in the Rust programming language.

Remote First, US

Architecture and development of distributed core backend systems. Created a single entry point into the Kraken backend with a custom, high performance, and low latency API and access control gateway — 100% developed in the Rust programming language. Started as an individual contributor but quickly got back into hands-on engineering management by building.

Consulting services in designing and implementing web stacks and distributed systems, network and cloud security solutions, and in building highly-functional engineering teams. Worked in most critical networks and enterprise environments with high requirements in redundancy and security. Led teams and delivered excellent solutions. Topics include.

Thaining, Bavaria, DE

As the Technical Director I supported the Trustworthiness Strategy and the strategic vision of EICAR e.V.

Alberta, CA

The OpenBSD project produces a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. Our efforts emphasized portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography. I was an OpenBSD hacker and contributed wired and wireless networking drivers, network stack functionality, layer 3-7 loadbalancing, SNMP, SPAM.

Lausanne, Vaud, CH

Led the engineering team, software development, and the security architecture at ARCATrust as the Chief Software Architect and VP of Engineering. I designed the architecture of the ARCAone, a custody solution for digital assets that comprised secured micro-VMs for hot wallets and multi-sig, cold storage, and a hardware security module (HSM).

Walldorf, BW, DE

Worked with SAP IT and leaders in SAP's headquarters to create network and security concepts for two of SAP's largest internal cloud moves at the time. Part of the project was a strategical move of internal SAP systems to Microsoft Azure to kick-start a wider partnership between SAP and Microsoft. Topics included cyber security, compliance, Azure.

Offered a strong experience in designing and implementing network and cloud security solutions, products, and concepts. Worked in most critical networks and enterprise environments with high requirements in redundancy and security. Design & implementation of network security solutions, product design, mission-critical OpenBSD support and development..

Hannover, DE

Founder of Esdenera, a company dedicated to the development of networking and security technology for cloud-based, decentralized, mobile, and software-defined networks. Created a highly-specialised team to build OpenBSD-based cloud firewalls. Partnered with Microsoft and Amazon to port the OpenBSD operating system to their Azure and AWS clouds for the.

Co-founder of and technical leader of.vantronix, a vendor of high-end firewalls for operation in security critical environments. A unique grade of security and quality was provided by the underlying OpenBSD operating system. Kick-started a global alliance partnership with HP ProCurve (now HPE Networking) and integrated joint solutions as an enabler for.

Thaining, Bavaria, DE

Founder of the task force on WLAN security at the European Institute for Computer Antivirus Research, now an overall IT-security expert group, to address the transition from the former WEP security standard to its successors WPA, WPA2 or alternatives. The group reviewed the security directive BSI TR-S-WLAN of the German national security agency.