Samuel Hitz
CTO at Anapaya Systems
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Hitz is a technology leader and co-founder serving as CTO of Anapaya Systems, where he helps commercialize SCION, a next-generation secure inter-domain networking architecture developed at ETH Zurich. With 14 years of engineering experience and an MSc in Information Security from ETH, he blends research-grade rigor with hands-on systems engineering to deliver provably secure protocols, network-level DDoS defenses, and path-control features. He led core back-end work on the open-source scionproto project—improving path management, revocation, and system reliability—and has production experience from internships on YouTube Mobile and Google Cloud autoscaling. Samuel favors practical, implementation-first solutions to hard networking problems and has a track record of turning academic innovation into deployed, high-availability products.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Information Security, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Information Security at ETH Zürich
English, German, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
management10
go10
network-protocol10
paths10
concurrency9
prometheus9
database-management9
testing8
git7
delegation6
grand-central-dispatch6
coredata6
sqlite6
iphone6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
scionproto/scion
Jul 2014 - Oct 2022
SCION Internet Architecture
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:80 reviews, 173 commits, 197 PRs in 8 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the SCION network, focusing on implementing path management features, particularly regarding path segment handling, core path registration, and revocation mechanisms. Their work involved modifying and extending existing code in the path server, beacon server, and related components. They also addressed memory leaks and contributed to adding new metrics to track system performance, indicating a focus on overall system reliability and stability.
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shitz/scion
Oct 2016 - Feb 2025
SCION Internet Architecture
Contributions:610 pushes, 176 branches in 8 years 5 months
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