Lukas Burkhalter
Cryptography Engineer at Proton | Privacy by Default
Zürich Metropolitan Area Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolLukas Burkhalter is a cryptography engineer with a decade of experience building privacy-preserving systems, currently advancing end-to-end privacy at Proton in Zürich. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from ETH Zürich and spent six years as a research assistant in applied cryptography and privacy-preserving systems, blending rigorous academic research with practical system design. Lukas has hands-on experience across academia and industry, including internships at Brave and a visiting researcher stint at UC Berkeley focused on networked systems and privacy-preserving crypto for wallets. He is passionate about data privacy and system security and is skilled at turning cryptographic research into deployable, user-focused solutions. Colleagues value his ability to bridge formal methods and production constraints to deliver auditable, privacy-first products.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science ETH in Computer Science, Bachelor of Science ETH in Computer Science at ETH Zürich
German, English, French
Github Skills (52)
crypto10
openpgp10
pgp10
pulse10
droplet10
gnupg10
elgamal9
blockstack9
bitcoin9
cryptography9
golang9
layer29
stacks-blockchain8
data-streams8
go8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
lubux/afgh-pre-relic
Feb 2019 - Nov 2019
AFGH Proxy Re-Encryption with RELIC (C library)
Contributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 9 months
cryptographyproxyc-libraryproxy-re-encryptionrelic
lubux/ecelgamal
Feb 2018 - Feb 2020
Additive homomorphic EC-ElGamal
Contributions:37 commits, 3 pushes, 4 comments in 2 years
tlaplacementadditivehomomorphicelgamal
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