Dominik Herkel
Staff Security Engineer at Google
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolDominik Herkel is a Staff Security Engineer based in Zurich with nine years of hands-on experience designing and hardening large-scale infrastructure at Google. He has progressed through technical roles from corporate operations and network engineering to senior security positions, blending deep expertise in networked systems, automation, and access policy engineering. Known as inquisitive, tenacious and team-oriented, he pairs independent problem solving with meticulous, accurate execution and a helpful coaching style. His background spans SDN, enterprise campus networks, datacenter and cloud automation, and security for services used by thousands globally—skills rooted in a BSc in IT Security and early telecom and SCADA exposure. Colleagues would note he brings both operational rigor and a thoughtful drive to make secure systems easier to operate.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc. IT Security, BSc. IT Security at USTP – University of Applied Sciences St. PöltenIng. Software Engineering, Ing. Software Engineering at HTL Spengergasse
German, English
Github Skills (12)
openflow8
netlink7
hyper-v6
go-packages6
golang5
linux5
openvswitch4
apache4
chromium1
chrome1
chrome-extension1
collaboration1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
coolbreeze000/ovs-gnxi
Sep 2018 - Apr 2019
A simple gNXI wrapper prototype for OVS
Contributions:56 commits in 7 months
prototypeovs
dherkel/go-openvswitch
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
Go packages which enable interacting with Open vSwitch and related tools. Apache 2.0 Licensed.
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
golanglicensedopenflownetlinkapache
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