Robin Künzler
Head Of Security at DFINITY Foundation
Uster, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolRobin Künzler is a Head of Security and seasoned engineering leader with six years of focused experience at DFINITY Foundation driving product security, decentralized reliability, and crypto engineering for the Internet Computer. He couples hands-on Rust backend work—contributing dependency updates and core refactors to the high-profile dfinity/ic repository—with strategic leadership over security teams. Based in Uster, Zurich, Robin has progressed from software and crypto engineering roles into staff and head positions, demonstrating rapid technical and managerial growth within a cutting-edge blockchain project. He holds advanced computer science degrees from ETH Zürich, reflecting deep academic grounding behind his systems and security expertise. Colleagues value him for translating complex cryptographic and distributed-systems problems into auditable, production-ready solutions. An uncommon strength is his blend of low-level code stewardship and org-level security strategy, ensuring both repository hygiene and operational resilience.
6 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Science Computer Science, Doctor of Science Computer Science at ETH Zürich
Github Skills (11)
dependency-management10
rust10
chain10
internet-computer10
icx10
blockchain10
wasm-pack9
rust-wasm9
distributed-systems9
concurrency8
cryptography7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dfinity/ic
Dec 2021 - Aug 2022
Internet Computer blockchain source: the client/replica software run by nodes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 24 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Robin primarily contributed to the back-end of the "ic" repository, focusing on dependency updates and code refactoring. They updated several dependencies like `lru`, `hyper`, `zeroize`, `crossbeam-deque`, `tokio`, `generic-array`, `tar` and `nalgebra`, indicating involvement in maintaining the project's dependencies. Additionally, they updated and refactored code in core components of the Internet Computer blockchain source code such as `rs/canister_sandbox/backend_lib/src/sandbox_manager.rs` and various modules within the `rs` directory, showing expertise in Rust development.
replicablockchainnodesdfinityinternet
robin-kunzler/swissquiz
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:12 PRs, 11 pushes, 5 branches in 1 day
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