Oliver Schranz
Lead Engineer Cyber Security Platform
Sankt Ingbert, Saarland, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolOliver Schranz is a Lead Cloud Security Engineer with nine years of industry and research experience, currently heading the Cyber Security Platform at STACKIT after serving as CTO at AIS. He holds a Ph.D. from CISPA / Saarland University and co-founded the saarsec CTF team, blending deep academic expertise with hands-on offensive and defensive security practice. Oliver has steered early-stage security ventures and product engineering teams, translating research insights into production-grade cloud security platforms. An active open-source contributor, he has improved core-js blockchain infrastructure by fixing timestamp and account serialization issues and strengthening QA around account exports. Based in Saarland, Germany, he combines curiosity-driven research with pragmatic engineering to secure distributed systems at scale.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Universität des SaarlandesDoctor of Science (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Information Security, Doctor of Science (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Information Security at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
German, English
Github Skills (4)
javascript10
blockchain10
testing10
cryptocurrency9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
nimiq/core-js
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Official JavaScript implementation of the Nimiq protocol
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / QA Engineer
Back-end Developer / QA EngineerContributions:15 commits, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 29 days
Contributions summary:Oliver contributed to the Nimiq core-js repository by fixing a timestamp-related issue, ensuring milliseconds were used instead of seconds. They also implemented and tested various aspects of the AccountsTree, including serialization, handling zero balances, and the export functionality. Furthermore, the user wrote tests to verify the core functionality and the correctness of accounts.
javascriptcryptocurrencynimiq
Project-ARTist/meta
Sep 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 6 months
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