Christophe Diederichs
Senior Software Engineer at Holepunch
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChristophe Diederichs is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with seven years of experience building secure, peer-to-peer and cryptographic systems. At Holepunch he owns core data structures (Hypercore and Autobase), designed a novel p2p consensus algorithm and extended core functionality to improve multi-writer scalability. Previously at Hyperdivision he integrated Bitcoin and Lightning into streaming services, developed an L2 Bitcoin PoC and maintained cryptography libraries with thorough testing of primitives. Trained as a chemist at the University of Oxford (BSc First, MSc Distinction), he brings rigorous experimental thinking to protocol design and security engineering. He combines deep cryptography experience with practical distributed-systems engineering, often focusing on designs that enable real-world, decentralized collaboration.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Chemistry, Distinction, Master of Science - MS, Chemistry, Distinction at University of Oxford
Github Skills (126)
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cryptography10
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grpc-web9
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
chm-diederichs/eth-serde
Mar 2020 - Jul 2020
Serialisation module for Ethereum formats
Contributions:34 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 3 months
ethereumformatsserialisation
synonymdev/backpack-host
Feb 2021 - Dec 2021
backpack back-up service
Contributions:47 commits in 10 months
backpack
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