Summary
Cristina Basescu is a systems and security researcher with 10 years of experience building fast, reliable distributed systems and investigating network security and consensus protocols. Based in the Zürich area, she combines industry work at Digital Asset with a PhD candidacy at EPFL, bridging practical engineering and rigorous academic research. Her background includes research roles at ETH Zürich and internships at Amazon, IBM Research and Inria, giving her deep exposure to storage, databases and network security. She focuses on fault tolerance and scalability, translating theoretical insights into production-ready designs for high-assurance systems. An engineer by training from Politehnica Bucharest with a master’s in parallel and distributed systems from VU Amsterdam, she’s known for tackling hard systems problems where correctness and performance collide.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems, Master, Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)
Engineer's degree, Computer Science, Engineer's degree, Computer Science at Universitatea „Politehnica” din București
English, Romanian, French, German