Philipp Muens
Cryptography Engineer at Primefactor
Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilipp Muens is a Cryptography Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building privacy-preserving systems, developer tooling, and blockchain protocols from research prototypes to production-ready implementations. He founded Primefactor to catalog and publicly share cryptography research and implementations, and has driven R&D work that includes migrating ZK proof circuits to browser-friendly Noir to cut proof times from minutes to seconds. His background spans senior engineering roles at Serverless (contributing to the widely used Serverless Framework), DeFi research at CelsiusX, and leading engineering at Trips where he architected an NFT-based copyright monetization protocol. Equally comfortable in low-level systems work—contributing to the sled embedded database—and cloud-native tooling and frontend integrations, he blends applied crypto research with pragmatic engineering. Based in Germany, Philipp brings a rare combination of open-source impact, protocol design, and performance-focused cryptographic engineering.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Informatik, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Informatik at Paderborn UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Informatik, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Informatik at DHBW Mannheim
German, English
Github Skills (33)
javascript10
databases10
aws-lambda10
wpgraphql10
redux10
aws-cloudformation10
aws10
front-end-development10
api-gateway10
serverless-framework10
wordpress-graphql10
graphql10
lock-free10
rust10
react10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
serverless/serverless
Feb 2016 - Feb 2020
⚡ Serverless Framework – Effortlessly build apps that auto-scale, incur zero costs when idle, and require minimal maintenance using AWS Lambda and other managed cloud services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:22 releases, 2220 commits, 1398 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Philipp made several contributions to the core functionalities of the Serverless Framework, primarily focusing on AWS-related deployments. They enhanced the deployment process by introducing support for KMS key configuration, added a feature to allow a forced deployment, and improved the handling of existing S3 buckets. Additionally, the user made substantial updates to various features including the integration with API Gateway, AWS Lambda integrations, and overall testing of the deployment process. They also addressed a race condition in the S3 bucket event deployment.
aws-lambdaserverlessiot-applicationsawsgoogle-functions
serverless/serverless-graphql
Mar 2016 - Jul 2016
Serverless GraphQL Examples for AWS AppSync and Apollo
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Philipp contributed significantly to both the backend and frontend aspects of the serverless GraphQL project. They fixed GraphQL execution issues, added a React/Redux implementation for user management, and introduced styling using Skeleton. Further contributions included adding user creation, update, and delete functionalities, and refactoring the router definitions. The user's changes involved both server-side code and client-side UI/UX improvements.
aws-appsyncgraphql-examplesserverlessaws-lambdagraphql
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