Christian Banse
Head Of Department Service And Application Security
Greater Munich Metropolitan Area Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Banse is a seasoned security and application leader with 11 years of experience, currently heading the Service and Application Security department at Fraunhofer AISEC and serving as a Technology Evangelist within the Fraunhofer ecosystem. He combines deep hands‑on backend engineering—evidenced by contributions to notable open-source projects like JavaParser, Floodlight SDN controller, and the golang-jwt library—with strategic management of research-to-product security initiatives. His technical work shows attention to edge cases and robustness (e.g., precise literal handling in JavaParser and RFC-compliant JWT improvements), reflecting a pragmatic, detail-oriented engineering mindset. Based in the Greater Munich area, he bridges academic research and applied security through long tenure at Fraunhofer and earlier research roles at the University of Regensburg. Colleagues value him for translating complex protocol and cryptographic requirements into maintainable implementations and configurable systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Business Informatics, Master of Science, Business Informatics at Universität RegensburgBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Business Informatics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Business Informatics at University of Regensburg
English, German
Github Skills (19)
parserator10
github-ci10
parser10
javaparser10
sdn10
abstract-syntax-tree10
java10
security10
javas10
code-analysis10
go10
jwt10
openflow10
golang10
flood-fill10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
golang-jwt/jwt
May 2021 - Dec 2022
Go implementation of JSON Web Tokens (JWT).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 324 reviews, 48 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Christian contributed to the Go implementation of JSON Web Tokens (JWT). Their work included adding support for GitHub Actions for CI/CD and implementing backwards-compatible features related to RFC7519, such as `RegisteredClaims` and `NumericDate` structs, enhancing compliance. Furthermore, the user refactored and introduced functional-style options for the Parser type and made improvements to error handling for a more robust implementation. They also made improvements to the codebase by refactoring and addressing various code-related issues.
golangjwt-gogojwtauth
floodlight/floodlight
May 2015 - Jun 2016
Floodlight SDN OpenFlow Controller
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 6 PRs, 18 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Christian primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Floodlight SDN controller. Their work involved adding functionality related to flow modification, specifically incorporating the `SEND_FLOW_REM` flag in flowmod messages. Furthermore, they made adjustments to configuration parameters to enable and control the behavior of this flag. The user also addressed the integration of outgoing messages within the controller.
floodlightcontrollersdnopenflow
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