Helge Bahmann
Senior Software Engineer at Citadel Securities
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolHelge Bahmann is a Senior Software Engineer based in Zurich with over a decade of systems and kernel-level experience and five years of focused industry experience across finance, blockchain, and OS security. He blends "bare metal" development and device driver expertise with large-scale distributed systems and DevOps, having contributed to high-profile projects like the Internet Computer blockchain to harden bootstrap and sandbox monitoring. With a Dr.-Ing. in Mathematics & Computer Science, he applies rigorous mathematical thinking to program representation, analysis, and transformation for correctness-critical systems. Helge has led teams at Google and Auterion and researched OS security at DFINITY, consistently operating across the full Linux stack from kernel to deployment. Notably, he pairs low-level debugging instincts with pragmatic logging and permission fixes that improve observability and operational resilience.
5 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. ing., Mathematics & Computer Science, Dr. ing., Mathematics & Computer Science at TU Freiberg
German, English, French
Github Skills (14)
sh10
script10
rust10
shell10
scripting10
blockchain9
linux9
debug9
system-administration9
debugging9
file-management8
filesystem8
devops8
memory-management7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dfinity/ic
Dec 2021 - Oct 2022
Internet Computer blockchain source: the client/replica software run by nodes
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:140 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Helge's commits focus on enhancing the Internet Computer (IC) blockchain source code, specifically improving the IC-OS bootstrap process. They added more verbose logging to the bootstrap script for improved debugging and made modifications to system scripts to allow the backup user to read the registry local store, ensuring correct permissions. Furthermore, the user implemented changes to monitor the memory usage of sandbox processes.
replicablockchainnodesdfinityinternet
hcbdfinity/grpc-rs
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
The gRPC library for Rust built on C Core library and futures
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
protobufrustgrpccore-librarygrpc-library
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