Balthasar Biedermann
Security Consultant at Balthasar Biedermann
Rhein-Neckar Metropolitan Region Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolBalthasar Biedermann is a security consultant and principal security architect with 12 years of experience helping engineering teams build secure, production-grade software across cloud and embedded systems. He has driven security maturity at scale—establishing threat modeling practices, securing a cloud management platform for 70+ engineers, and contributing to ISO 27001 recertification with zero findings. Hands-on across the stack, he has implemented Secure Boot and TPM features for devices and hardened identity and token handling for large-scale JVM microservice landscapes. He reduces vulnerability backlogs, led cryptography validation including PQC planning, and built incident response and dependency lifecycle processes adapted to agile teams. Remote-first and client-facing, he combines deep technical craft with clear translation between engineers, product owners, and management. An active contributor to testing tooling, he also refactored a micro testing framework to support higher-arity fakes, showing his attention to developer ergonomics and low-level C/automation detail.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science Software- und Internettechnologie, Bachelor of Computer Science Software- und Internettechnologie at University of Mannheim
German, English, Indonesian
Github Skills (7)
c1710
macros10
cpp10
tdd10
c1110
cplus10
ruby9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
meekrosoft/fff
Jan 2017 - Jan 2018
A testing micro framework for creating function test doubles
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 5 PRs, 22 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Balthasar primarily refactored and improved the functionality of the testing micro framework. They modified macro definitions within the core header file, `fff.h`, and the code generation script, `fakegen.rb`. This included enhancements to the macro counting shortcuts for defining fake functions and adapting the framework to support up to 20 parameters. Further updates encompassed function prototypes in the header files.
micro-frameworktestingc-plus-plustest-doublesembedded
usr42/docker-machine-backup
Nov 2018 - Feb 2022
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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