Reyk Flöter
Director Of Engineering - Core Backend at reykfloeter
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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SeniorReyk Flöter is an executive engineering leader based in Zurich with 25+ years in software engineering and information security and over two decades of hands-on experience building resilient backend systems. Currently Director of Engineering for Core Backend at Kraken and an active freelance senior consultant, he blends operational leadership with deep technical craft—particularly in security-focused, high-throughput environments. A former founder and CEO, Reyk brings entrepreneurial judgement to platform decisions and a pragmatic bias for shipping auditable, maintainable systems. An OpenBSD hacker and coffee nerd who still "hacks for fun," he pairs low-level systems curiosity with strategic oversight, making him equally comfortable reviewing kernel-level security tradeoffs or shaping product-facing engineering roadmaps.
21 years of coding experience
English, German
Github Skills (196)
libgit210
command-line-interface10
openbsd10
internet10
portable10
rust-lang10
opensmtpd10
linux10
cvs10
exchange10
compiler10
rust10
mechanism10
netbsd10
openpgp10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
reyk/httpd
Jul 2014 - Aug 2017
Contributions:113 commits, 7 PRs, 53 pushes in 3 years 1 month
httpdopenbsd
reyk/privsep-rs
Mar 2021 - Nov 2021
Rust privsep experiments
Contributions:60 commits, 5 PRs, 60 pushes in 8 months
rustrust-lang
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