Thorsten Kramp
Engineering Manager SRE at YouTube
Rapperswil-Jona, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolThorsten Kramp is an engineering leader and SRE manager at YouTube with a PhD in Computer Science and over two decades of industry impact, including 15+ years at IBM Research. He co-created LoRaWAN, co-founded and served as CTO of TrackNet (acquired by Semtech), and later led engineering as Senior Director at Semtech, bridging research, productization, and commercialization of IoT connectivity. As Co-Chair of the LoRa Alliance Technical Committee he helped shape standards that underpin large-scale low-power IoT deployments. His hands-on background includes backend security and certificate work in Hyperledger Fabric, reflecting deep expertise in distributed systems and cryptographic components. Based in Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland, he combines academic rigor with entrepreneurial execution and a knack for turning low-level protocol innovations into widely adopted products. Colleagues know him for translating research inventions into pragmatic, production-ready platforms that scale.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
Github Skills (8)
ecdsa10
go10
certificate-authority10
protobuffer10
cryptography10
protobuf10
hmac9
blockchain8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
hyperledger-archives/fabric
Dec 2015 - Feb 2016
THIS IS A READ-ONLY historic repository. Current development is at https://gerrit.hyperledger.org/r/#/admin/projects/fabric . pull requests not accepted
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:49 commits, 1 PR, 13 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Thorsten primarily focused on the development of the TCA (Transaction Certificate Authority) within the Hyperledger Fabric project. Their contributions included adding nonce and timestamp features to the TCertIndex, as well as modifications in the ECA (Enrollment Certificate Authority) and TLSCA components. They also made changes to the protobuf definitions related to certificate requests and the integration of ECIES key pairs.
hyperledgeradminfabricblockchainpull-requests
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