Philipp Winter
Platform Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilipp Winter is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience designing systems at the intersection of networks, security, and privacy, currently building production-grade software at TileDB. He combines deep academic training (PhD in Computer Science) and postdoctoral research with hands-on roles at Brave, The Tor Project, and CAIDA, uniquely fluent in turning research prototypes into deployed, secure systems. His background leading anti-censorship efforts and security research reflects a focus on resilient, privacy-preserving architectures for real-world networks. Comfortable both as a researcher and engineer, he supervises deployment lifecycles and bridges rigorous analysis with pragmatic implementation. Based in Chicago, he brings an uncommon mix of scholarly rigor and operational delivery to challenging security and networking problems.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Secure Information Systems, Master of Science - MS Secure Information Systems at Hagenberg Campus - FH Upper AustriaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Karlstad University
Github Skills (150)
censorship-circumvention10
parser10
python10
testing10
traceroute10
security10
internet10
encryption10
rust-lang10
scanner10
public-key10
bibtex10
csv10
rust10
go-interface10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
NullHypothesis/bridgedb
Apr 2019 - Jul 2020
The Tor Project's bridge distribution system
Contributions:6 PRs, 541 pushes, 146 branches in 1 year 3 months
tor
brave/tokenizer
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
A modular resource tokenization service.
Contributions:22 reviews, 154 commits, 50 PRs in 1 year 3 months
anonymizationanonymization-serviceaddressip-addresstokenization
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