Ralph Ankele
Security Research Engineer at Selected Early-Stage Startups
Graz, Styria, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolRalph Ankele is a PhD-trained cryptographer and security engineer based in Graz, Austria, who blends deep research experience with hands-on product development across iOS, browser internals, and privacy-focused systems. With roles at Brave, Proton, and startups—and advising early-stage teams on security, cryptography, and AI—he moves fluidly between shipping secure code and shaping security architecture. He’s led projects that merge academic rigor with engineering delivery, mentors engineers, and still prefers to stay hands-on in reverse engineering and secure app development. Though early in his commercial career (≈3 years post-PhD-level roles), his background across top research labs and industry demonstrates an uncommon combination of formal cryptographic expertise and practical product instincts.
3 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Information Security, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Information Security at Royal Holloway, University of LondonMaster of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at Graz University of TechnologyTechnical University of Denmark
English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (16)
brave-browser9
adblock9
linux9
brave9
browser9
describe9
macos8
windows8
android8
rust7
solana6
scheme3
retrieval2
evaluation2
ios1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
brave-experiments/bulletproofs
Aug 2023 - Apr 2024
A pure-Rust implementation of Bulletproofs using Ristretto.
Contributions:28 pushes, 4 branches in 8 months
brave-experiments/curve-trees
Nov 2023 - Feb 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 months
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