Tino Breddin
CTO at HOPR Services AG
Villingen-Schwenningen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolTino Breddin is a seasoned CTO and distributed-systems engineer with 16 years of experience designing, implementing and operating resilient back-end systems for startups and SMEs. He brings deep expertise in Erlang/OTP and Elixir, a strong grounding in distributed systems theory, and hands-on experience as a core developer on high-profile projects like the æternity blockchain and contributions to the rebar3 build tool. As interim CTO and Director of Engineering at HOPR he helped build privacy-preserving, incentivized mixnet infrastructure, and he runs boutique firms delivering bespoke full‑stack and VR/AR products. Known for bridging low-level engineering, DevOps and product leadership, he regularly steps into turnaround and scaling roles to shape both architecture and team processes. An often-overlooked strength is his cross-platform tooling work—improving Windows build and CI support for complex Erlang projects—which highlights his focus on practical, portable systems.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Diploma at Dresden University of Technology
Github Skills (17)
erlang10
testing10
build210
compile10
devops10
dependency-analysis9
dependency-manager9
dependency-management9
bash9
msys9
build-automation9
script9
windows-subsystem-for-linux8
packager8
package8
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
aeternity/aeternity
Oct 2018 - Nov 2021
æternity blockchain - scalable blockchain for the people - smart contracts, state channels, names, tokens
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 184 commits, 200 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Tino contributed significantly to the deployment and build process of the æternity blockchain project. They implemented Windows installation instructions using the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), developed scripts to prepare the MSYS2 environment and set up the build tools, and added a build-only configuration for Appveyor. The user also modified the rebar configuration and scripts to improve compatibility with Windows and other platforms.
tokensethereumchannelserlangscaling
erlang/rebar3
Feb 2019 - Jun 2020
Erlang build tool that makes it easy to compile and test Erlang applications and releases.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 10 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Tino primarily focused on improving the build tool's functionality and reliability. Their contributions include fixing provider hook handling for escriptize, addressing incorrect app info, and resolving issues with duplicate module naming in the edoc test suite data. They also corrected a case clause in the ct_hooks and ensured the proper handling of projects without CT suites. The user's work involved modifications to Erlang code and adjustments to testing configurations.
dependencieserlangtemplatecompilepackages
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