Sid Hussmann
CTO & Founder at gapfruit AG
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolSid Hussmann is a systems architect and founder with 8+ years of focused experience building trustworthy, security-critical products from firmware to full-system architectures. After early hands-on work in industrial automation and OT, he blended electrical engineering and CS expertise into HW/SW co-design and microkernel OS development for high-assurance applications in defense and governmental secure notebooks. As CTO and co-founder of Gapfruit, he translates academic security research into production-grade products while previously leading architecture for encryption, VPN, VoIP and secure radio stacks at Crypto AG. He is an active contributor to the Genode OS Framework, improving VFS primitives, named pipes and NAT handling—work that reflects his low-level systems mindset and attention to reliable synchronization. Based in Zurich, he combines maker curiosity with rigorous engineering processes, often tackling problems that span electronics, firmware and secure OS design.
7 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
College and Apprenticeship, Automation Engineer Technology/Technician, College and Apprenticeship, Automation Engineer Technology/Technician at Berufsschule EmmenExchange Student, Engineering Physics/Applied Physics, Exchange Student, Engineering Physics/Applied Physics at Bakersfield High SchoolCertificate of Advanced Studies, Computer Science, Certificate of Advanced Studies, Computer Science at ETH ZurichBachelor of Science - BSc, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BSc, Electrical Engineering at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Github Skills (16)
application-framework10
app-framework10
web-framework10
c-language10
os-development10
system-design10
cprogramming-language10
networking10
operating-system10
ssh9
c178
c118
sys7
embedded7
x86-646
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
genodelabs/genode
Jun 2018 - Apr 2021
Genode OS Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end & Systems Engineer
Back-end & Systems EngineerContributions:10 commits, 87 comments, 15 issues in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Sid contributed significantly to the Genode OS Framework, primarily focusing on enhancing system-level functionalities and VFS capabilities. They implemented named pipes and improved synchronization within the VFS pipe plugin. Additionally, the user worked on the NAT feature of the NIC router by ensuring new port allocations use increasing source ports, improving connection handling. Furthermore, they addressed several issues and contributed to the SSH server component.
armcpluspluscppframeworkgenode
sidhussmann/genode
Jun 2018 - Dec 2024
Contributions:36 pushes, 24 branches in 6 years 7 months
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