Philipp Kreil
DevOps Engineer At Ethereum at Ethereum Foundation
Weil am Rhein, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolPhilipp Kreil is a DevOps Engineer at the Ethereum Foundation with 11 years of software engineering experience, blending production-grade infrastructure work with hands-on backend development. Based in Weil am Rhein, Germany, he brings a strong applied computer science background from Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg and a long tenure building reliable systems at innobit ag. He contributes to open-source tooling for EVM ecosystems—most notably modularizing a secure PoW faucet that hardens WebSocket share verification and nonce handling to thwart abuse. Philipp focuses on maintainability and security in distributed systems, comfortable moving between operational responsibilities and code-level refactors. Colleagues can rely on him to ship pragmatic, auditable solutions that balance reliability with real-world threat mitigation.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Angewandte Informatik, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Angewandte Informatik at Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg
Github Skills (5)
websocket10
ethereum10
security10
javascript9
nodejs9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
pk910/PoWFaucet
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Modularized faucet for EVM chains with different protection methods (Captcha, Mining, IP, Mainnet Balance, Gitcoin Passport and more)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 1 review, 202 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Philipp primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and security of the faucet server. They implemented measures to prevent malicious users from abusing the system by enforcing strict increasing nonces in shares. Furthermore, the user refactored and cleaned up the faucet server code, indicating a focus on maintainability and code quality. These changes involved modifications to the core WebSocket interaction and share verification, aiming to improve the overall reliability and security of the faucet.
proof-of-workethereumsecuredblockchainevm
pk910/dynamic-ssz
Mar 2024 - Feb 2025
Dynamic SSZ serializer in go
Contributions:5 releases, 5 PRs, 52 pushes in 10 months
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