Summary
Peter Kirchner is a cloud architect and product owner specializing in PKI services with 10 years of software engineering experience and a long tenure at Microsoft where he built customer-facing solutions in Commercial Software Engineering. Based in Berlin, he now leads vehicle-adjacent IT security services at Volkswagen Group, securing vehicle communication and service authentication at scale. His background blends developer evangelism, hands-on engineering, and cloud/security scripting, reflecting a practical focus on trust, automation, and operational security. Peter’s profile reveals a knack for translating complex crypto and identity requirements into producible services, informed by formal computer science training from the University of Potsdam. He is comfortable at the intersection of product, architecture, and developer engagement, often turning platform-level security needs into consumable APIs and tooling.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Informatik, Diplom, Informatik at Universität Potsdam / University of Potsdam
English, German