Linus Gasser
Lead Engineer at Center for Digital Trust (C4DT) EPFL
Echandens, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolLinus Gasser is a Lead Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in decentralized systems and applied cryptography, currently driving technical initiatives at the Center for Digital Trust (C4DT) at EPFL. He cut his teeth implementing crypto and distributed algorithms in Prof. Bryan Ford’s lab and has contributed to notable open-source crypto work like dedis/kyber, improving core Go crypto primitives and practical examples. Linus blends hands-on backend development, rigorous testing and refactoring with a strong attention to detail—evident in both code and documentation improvements. His career also includes grassroots tech education and infrastructure projects in Chad, where he built training programs and scaled networks in resource-constrained environments. Based in Vaud, Switzerland, he combines academic rigor (EPFL, CERAM) with pragmatic engineering to make decentralized technologies more accessible. He’s motivated by using technical design to broaden civic access to digital trust and services.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Systèmes de Communications, Master's degree, Systèmes de Communications at CERAM Sophia AntipolisMaster's Degree, Communication Systems (Networking), 17/20, Master's Degree, Communication Systems (Networking), 17/20 at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
German, French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
crypto10
crypt10
go10
cryptography10
testing8
elliptic-curve7
tcp6
apt-get6
docker6
protocol-buffers6
protobuf-go6
network-programming6
encoding6
ubuntu6
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
dedis/kyber
Oct 2015 - Sep 2022
Advanced crypto library for the Go language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:59 reviews, 275 commits, 116 PRs in 7 years
Contributions summary:Linus primarily focused on improving the core crypto library for the Go language. Their contributions included correcting English in code comments and updating examples to use the nist-library. The user implemented new methods and refactored existing code to enhance the library's functionality. They also worked on testing and formatting the code, demonstrating their attention to detail.
crypto-librarygolangcryptographycryptanalysiscrypto
indie-pocket/indie-pocket
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Create a simple app to help generate training data for classifying how a mobile phone is held.
Contributions:13 releases, 65 commits, 10 PRs in 24 days
phonemobile-phonemachine-learningtrainingsimple-app
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