Philipp Rieger
Co-Founder & CTO at Diveline.io
San Luis Potosi, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilipp Rieger is a security-first technologist and founder with a decade of experience building secure, user-facing products and developer tools. As Co-Founder & CTO of finway and an earlier co-founder of Trust Wallet (acquired by Binance and scaled to ~200M users), he blends hands-on cryptography and mobile engineering with product-led startup execution. His background spans automotive and embedded security at BMW, secure mobile/keystore implementations in a top open-source Ethereum wallet, and interim CTO work that helped secure early-stage funding. Philipp holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science focused on software engineering and IT security, and he pairs deep offensive security skills with practical system architecture to de-risk 0→1 builds. Based in San Luis Potosi, he also explores consumer-facing niche products like Diveline.io, showing a habit of turning security expertise into novel, usable services.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science with focus on Software Engineering and IT Security, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science with focus on Software Engineering and IT Security at OTH Regensburg
German, French, English
Github Skills (8)
aes-encryption10
swift10
ios10
cryptography10
json9
mobile-security8
keystore8
ethereum8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
trustwallet/trust-wallet-ios
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
:iphone: Trust - Ethereum Wallet and Web3 DApp Browser for iOS
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 comment in 2 days
Contributions summary:Philipp focused on implementing and refining the conversion of private keys to keystore files within the iOS Trust Wallet application. They initiated the feature, then iterated on the initial implementation by refactoring and correcting AES encryption, adjusting JSON formatting, and correcting key derivation logic. They also added testing for private key to keystore file conversion.
browseriphonedappethereumblockchain
trustwallet/trust-ray
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
:cloud: API for the Trust Wallet
Contributions:247 commits, 9 PRs, 188 pushes in 1 month
apiethereumcloud-apiwallettrust
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