Henk Birkholz
Co-Founder & CTO at Leibniz Institute for Materials Engineering - IWT
Bremen, Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Germany
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolHenk Birkholz is a security-focused technology leader and Co-Founder & CTO with over a decade of experience designing standards-driven, interoperable systems for trusted computing, supply chains, and cyber-physical security. He leads enterprise adoption of next-generation Internet standards using agentic AI at XOR, while concurrently advancing semantic interoperability and digital twin initiatives at the Leibniz Institute and steering global attestation and confidential computing efforts at Fraunhofer SIT. An influential standards chair in both the Trusted Computing Group and IETF, he combines deep protocol-level expertise with practical deployment experience across ICS, CPS, and materials-science data platforms. Known for turning interdisciplinary problem statements into operational reference architectures, he quietly bridges research, industry and open processes to make large-scale security measurable and automatable.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computing Science, Master's degree, Computing Science at University of Bremen
English, German
Github Skills (102)
pii10
procedures10
internet10
specification10
attestation10
ietf10
statement10
architecture10
risk-assessment10
entity10
integrity10
rfc10
workitem10
signing9
chain9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ietf-rats/draft-birkholz-rats-corim
Jan 2021 - Sep 2022
Concise Reference Integrity Manifests
Contributions:18 reviews, 50 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 7 months
dataminingsecuritytlaintegritypii
ietf-scitt/draft-birkholz-scitt-architecture
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
A specification including, problem statement, use cases, requirements, and architectural constituents for a Transparency Service in support of Supply Chain Integrity, Transparency, and Trust
Contributions:38 reviews, 81 commits, 20 PRs in 10 months
casestlaintegrityrfcchain
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.