Mirco Bauer
Chief Information Security Officer
Hong Kong, China
Summary
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Top SchoolMirco Bauer is a seasoned information security and technology leader with 23 years of experience, currently serving as Chief Information Security Officer at VDX after CISO roles in the crypto and financial sectors. An autodidact from Hamburg now based in Hong Kong, he blends hands-on engineering, security architecture, and operational leadership to design scalable, vendor-independent solutions for SMEs and enterprises. Deeply rooted in open source, Mirco contributes to projects like PHP, Mono, Debian and GNOME and has modernized community libraries such as Twitterizer to handle API changes, streaming, and proxy/SSL concerns. He pairs practical whitehat hacking skills with executive stewardship—actively shaping governance through roles with the .NET and GNOME foundations—making him adept at translating complex security needs into auditable, automated implementations.
23 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at G18 Hamburg
German, English
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Github Skills (13)
net10
asp-net10
json10
dotnet10
api10
csharp10
apidoc10
dotnet-core10
oauth9
deserialization7
error-handling7
user-interface6
glade6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Twitterizer/Twitterizer
Aug 2012 - Sep 2015
Twitterizer is a .NET class library that provides an easy-to-use interface for the Twitter web api. It is written for developers. It's features are easy to discover and follow a consistent design pattern.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 3 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Mirco primarily focused on updating the Twitterizer library to align with the v1.1 API. Their contributions included fixing parsing issues, updating API URLs, adjusting endpoints for mentions and search, and updating streaming endpoints. They also added support for proxy settings within the streaming API and addressed issues related to SSL/TLS and deserialization, demonstrating a strong understanding of the library's internal workings.
discoverapidotnetclass-libraryfollow
meebey/smuxi-hooks
Oct 2013 - Mar 2015
Contributions:24 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 4 months
react-hooksreacthooks
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