Summary
Martin Schäffner is a Digital Trust & Privacy manager and blockchain architect with eight years of hands-on experience in Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) and decentralized identity systems. He has designed and implemented identity-based solutions across consortia and clients, authored a master's thesis evaluating DID methods, and now helps organisations navigate EUDI/eIDAS 2.0 strategy, PoCs, and production readiness at Deloitte. His background spans engineering roles in startups and labs where he built blockchain projects and interoperable identity integrations, giving him practical product-to-policy perspective. Based in Bavaria, he blends academic rigour from TUM and BME with a practitioner’s instinct for shipping secure, interoperable identity systems. Notably, he moves comfortably between advisory and engineering work—workshopping strategy with executives while contributing architecture and code-level decisions.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Information Systems, Information Systems at Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Master Wirtschaftsinformatik, Master Wirtschaftsinformatik at Technical University of Munich
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Wirtschaftsinformatik, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Wirtschaftsinformatik at DHBW Mosbach
English, French, German