Oliver Terbu
Technical And Standards Director, Europe at MATTR
Austria
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Top SchoolOliver Terbu is a Technical and Standards Director based in Austria with a deep focus on decentralized digital identity and over a decade of hands-on experience in identity, cryptography, and secure systems. He currently leads standards and technical strategy for MATTR in Europe and has steered identity programs at organizations like ConsenSys, Spruce, and uPort. An active contributor and editor in W3C, IETF, OIDF and ISO/IEC working groups, he bridges standards work with product delivery, turning specification-level thinking into deployable identity solutions. His background spans government-grade mobile ID projects at Österreichische Staatsdruckerei to blockchain-native self-sovereign identity architectures, reflecting both public-sector and Web3 credibility. Known for convening cross-organizational working groups (co-chairing DIF WGs) he brings pragmatic consensus-building to technically complex standards debates. He pairs a Master’s in Computer Science with a rare mix of protocol-level expertise and product-oriented architecture, often translating cryptographic nuance into real-world identity flows.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Technische Universität Graz
Github Skills (140)
verifiable10
identity10
saml10
authentication10
cosmos10
eip10
verifiable-credentials10
openapi10
uport10
ssi10
jwt10
credentials10
identity-framework10
decentralized-identity10
bitcoin10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
w3c/vc-imp-guide
Jul 2019 - Feb 2023
Verifiable Credentials Implementation Guidelines
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
verifiable-credentialsvc-wg
spruceid/EIPs
Aug 2022 - Aug 2023
The Ethereum Improvement Proposal repository
Contributions:6 reviews, 4 PRs, 66 pushes in 1 year
ethereum
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