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 (87)
go-api10
cryptocurrency10
verifiable-credentials10
iota10
polygon10
api10
decentralized-identity10
digest10
w3c10
administrator10
virtual-machine10
cryptography10
react10
golang9
node-api9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
iotaledger/identity
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Implementation of the Decentralized Identity standards such as DID and Verifiable Credentials by W3C for the IOTA MoveVM.
Contributions:650 reviews, 389 commits, 211 PRs in 1 year 7 months
decentralized-identityverifiable-credentialsw3cself-sovereign-identitydid
PhilippGackstatter/openwhisk
Apr 2021 - Jun 2022
Apache OpenWhisk is an open source serverless cloud platform
Contributions:4 commits, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
openwhiskserverless
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