Patrick Schleizer
Founder & Programmer at Whonix
Malta
Summary
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SeniorPatrick Schleizer is a founder and programmer with 11 years of experience building privacy-first, open source operating systems and tooling from Malta. He founded Whonix to provide resilient, anonymity-focused Internet access leveraging Tor and hardening against malware and IP leaks, and contributes to Qubes OS where his work underpins integrations like Qubes-Whonix used by SecureDrop. Patrick advises organizations and private clients on cryptocurrency security, operational security, and threat modeling, blending hands-on systems programming with strategic risk management. Recognized by leading privacy figures, he combines deep OS- and security-level engineering with community coordination and licensing compliance to deliver practical, auditable defenses for high-risk users and services.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (200)
vala10
btrfs10
ipmi10
ubuntu10
cryptocurrency10
chat10
install-script10
operating-system10
alpine-linux10
memory-allocation10
init10
torrent10
debian-packaging10
file-sharing10
confirmation10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
adrelanos/kloak
Jan 2017 - Oct 2024
Contributions:73 pushes, 7 branches, 35 tags in 7 years 10 months
kernelsecuritysensitive-dataadministratoranonymization
Whonix/Whonix-Installer
Feb 2023 - Jan 2025
Simple Installer for Whonix-Starter to setup and configure Whonix with VirtualBox
Contributions:1 PR, 71 pushes in 1 year 11 months
ansibleinstallerwhonixconfigurevirtualbox
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