Matthias Zimmermann is a Technical Lead based in Zurich with 11+ years of professional experience and a PhD in Computer Science, blending research rigour with hands-on engineering. He has led architecture and research teams, steered open-source projects, and now focuses on blockchain and decentralized compute as Technical Lead at Golem Network while serving as CTO and protocol architect at Etherisc. Comfortable from strategy to lines of code, he brings deep Solidity, Foundry and Python expertise alongside long-term experience in enterprise architecture and IoT. As owner of xbrain.ch he consults and architects solutions, combining startup agility with enterprise-grade discipline. His background includes leading the Eclipse Scout community and a postdoc in NLP/speech, an uncommon mix that surfaces in pragmatic, research-informed system design. Colleagues describe him as a rare cross-domain technologist who translates complex distributed systems and protocol ideas into production-ready implementations.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of Bern
M.Sc Computer Science, M.Sc Computer Science at University of Berne
Contributions:54 releases, 110 commits, 4 PRs in 7 months
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