Peter Šurda
Chief Executive Officer at Bitmessage GmbH
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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RockstarPeter Šurda is a CEO and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience leading Bitmessage GmbH from Vienna, Austria, and contributing deeply to the Bitmessage open-source ecosystem. As a core developer on PyBitmessage he has implemented CLI tooling for the daemon, improved C proof-of-work components, and explored OpenCL integration for mining—showing hands-on full-stack backend and low-level systems skills. He blends executive leadership with practical engineering, shipping secure P2P and encrypted communication features while maintaining code quality across Python and C/C++. Based in Vienna, he pairs startup initiative with protocol-level expertise in decentralized messaging. Less obvious: he moves fluidly between product-facing interfaces and performance-sensitive cryptographic primitives, making him equally at home in strategy meetings and the codebase.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
command-line-interface10
python10
cli10
command-line10
c-language7
cprogramming-language7
opencl6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Bitmessage/PyBitmessage
Jan 2015 - Nov 2022
Reference client for Bitmessage: a P2P encrypted decentralised communication protocol:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 1245 reviews, 792 commits in 7 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on enhancing the PyBitmessage daemon client by implementing a command-line interface (CLI) for interacting with the daemon. This involved creating a new Python file to house the CLI functionality and developing various commands and operations to interact with the client. The user also worked on integrating OpenCL code for potential miner functionality. Additionally, the user made fixes to the C PoW and applied code quality improvements, indicating some familiarity with C/C++ code.
pythoncommunication-protocolp2pcommunicationdecentralized
PeterSurda/bitmessage-email-gateway
Jun 2015 - Nov 2019
Contributions:58 pushes, 4 issues in 4 years 5 months
mailsmtpemailgatewaybi-directional
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