Florian Friemel
Principal Security Researcher at Oracle
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolFlorian Friemel is a Principal Security Researcher based in London with 11 years of experience blending software engineering and applied security research. He advanced from backend developer roles into security-focused positions at R3 and Oracle, bringing deep familiarity with distributed systems and enterprise blockchain through hands-on contributions to the prominent open-source Corda project. Florian’s work spans bug fixes, feature development, dependency upgrades and robustness improvements—skills that translate into pragmatic threat modeling and secure-by-design engineering. He holds a Bachelor’s in Cognitive Science, a background that informs his analytical approach to security problems and human-centered risk assessment. Colleagues rely on him for making complex systems more reliable and auditable while keeping developer ergonomics in mind.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Friedrichsgymnasium KasselBachelor’s Degree, Cognitive Science, 1.9, Bachelor’s Degree, Cognitive Science, 1.9 at Universität Osnabrück
English, Spanish, German
Github Skills (11)
kotlin10
distributed-ledger10
distributed-systems10
blockchain10
corda10
distributed-ledger-technology10
java9
testing9
javas9
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
corda/corda
Jun 2018 - Feb 2020
Corda is an open source blockchain project, designed for business from the start. Only Corda allows you to build interoperable blockchain networks that transact in strict privacy. Corda's smart contract technology allows businesses to transact directly, with value.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 62 PRs, 91 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Florian primarily contributed to the Corda blockchain project by addressing bugs, implementing new features, and refactoring existing code. They focused on upgrading dependencies such as Quasar, fixing login error handling within the explorer, and improving the shutdown process of child processes. Furthermore, the user made changes to argument parsing, making it more consistent, and addressed documentation issues. Their work demonstrates a solid understanding of the Corda platform and its underlying technologies.
interoperabledltsmart-contractprivacytransact
florian-f/gwt-cordova
Aug 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:46 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 10 months
javascriptmobilegwtcordova
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