Software Engineer — backend, distributed systems, applied cryptography 📍 Darmstadt, Germany · 🟢 Available from October 2026
I build protocol infrastructure in Go and Rust: state channels, peer-to-peer networking, key management, and the correctness work that keeps cryptographic systems from quietly failing in production.
Languages
Infrastructure & Tooling
Frameworks
Distributed systems — state channels, P2P networking (libp2p), consensus mechanisms, concurrent programming, fault tolerance, multi-chain adapters (Ethereum, Nervos CKB, Polkadot)
Applied cryptography — threshold signatures (BBS+), PKI, digital identity and verifiable credentials, key management, protocol implementation
Backend engineering — REST API design, WebSocket services, performance profiling and contention analysis, high test coverage under CI, Agile/Scrum delivery
Certifications — SC-900 · AZ-900
Languages — German (C1) · English (C1) · Vietnamese (native)
- Named core developer, Cardano Catalyst Fund 14 (100,000 ADA) — all five milestones delivered, funds fully released
- LOEWE Perun-DID (€369,000, PolyCrypt + TU Darmstadt, 2022–2024) — delivered components in a completed publicly funded research project
- ~80% response-time reduction on a hot path by resolving mutex contention
- 96% test coverage on the Atala PRISM REST API
- WebSocket relay bridging browser clients into a libp2p P2P network — peer discovery, handshake, reconnect with retry, TTL-bounded sessions
Minh Huy Tran · Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany Open to backend, systems, and security engineering roles in the Rhein-Main region from October 2026.