Philipp-alexander Blum
Invited Expert at W3C
Tallinn, Harju maakond, Germany
Summary
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RockstarPhilipp-Alexander Blum is an invited expert at W3C and an open-source software developer with 11 years of experience building web and IoT systems. Based in Tallinn and originally from Germany, he has blended roles in developer advocacy, distributed web systems, and DeFi—most recently shifting focus toward Web of Things and hardware tinkering. His background includes developer advocacy at IOTA Foundation and hands-on engineering across analytics and e-commerce platforms, giving him a strong mix of protocol-level thinking and product-focused delivery. He leads open-source efforts through desertmonitor OÜ while contributing standards work at W3C, bridging practical implementations with interoperability goals. Known for moving between low-level hardware projects and distributed web stacks, he brings a pragmatic, standards-first approach to building connected systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
German, English
Stackoverflow
2,301reputation
182kreached
84answers
27questions
rabbitmq
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cassandra
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grpc
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
chartjs-plugin10
k8s10
cmsis10
nano10
portal10
unit-testing10
newsletter10
esp826610
alien10
file-parser10
bare-metal10
iota10
stm32cube10
software-update10
kubernetes10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
relu91/webthing-arduino
Aug 2021 - Oct 2021
Simple server for ESP8266, ESP32, Ethernet, or WiFi101-compatible boards compliant with Mozilla's proposed WoT API
Contributions:9 reviews, 32 commits, 8 PRs in 2 months
apisimple-servercompliantesp8266wot-api
embedded-iota/iota-c-library
Jul 2018 - Dec 2018
embedded IOTA C library
Contributions:67 commits, 4 PRs, 32 pushes in 5 months
c-libraryiotaembeddedsoftware-updateiot
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