Philipp Gackstatter
Sr. Staff Protocol Engineer at Miden
Germany
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Top SchoolPhilipp Gackstatter is a Sr. Staff Protocol Engineer with eight years of experience building privacy-focused, open software using Rust. He architects and implements zero-knowledge rollup protocols for Miden, having driven the project through its spin-out from Polygon into an independent effort. Previously he contributed to IOTA Identity and other decentralized identity work, blending cryptography-minded protocol design with practical Rust engineering. His background spans cloud architecture, VR tooling and real-time systems, reflecting a habit of solving distributed and performance-sensitive problems end-to-end. Based in Germany and trained at TU Wien and University of Tübingen, he combines strong academic grounding with hands-on shipping experience. Colleagues describe him as an engineer who prefers elegant, usable designs that enhance privacy rather than obscure it.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologyBachelor's degree Medieninformatik, Bachelor's degree Medieninformatik at University of TübingenExchange Semester Software Engineering, Exchange Semester Software Engineering at National Taipei University of Technology
German, English, Chinese
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Github Skills (112)
verifiable10
go-api10
identity10
authentication10
verifiable-credentials10
iota10
polygon10
ssi10
api10
shamir-secret-sharing10
credentials10
decentralized-identity10
digest10
decentralized-identifiers10
w3c10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
PhilippGackstatter/ion
Oct 2019 - Aug 2024
A type-checked, interpreted programming language.
Contributions:8 PRs, 53 pushes, 18 branches in 4 years 10 months
interpreted-programming-languagecompilerprogramming-languageinterpreterinterpreted
iotaledger/identity.rs
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Implementation of the Decentralized Identity standards such as DID and Verifiable Credentials by W3C for the IOTA Tangle.
Contributions:650 reviews, 389 commits, 211 PRs in 1 year 7 months
decentralized-identifierstanglediddecentralizedverifiable-credentials
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