Cyrill Gössi

Work Experience


Jan 2021 - Today

Senior Cybersecurity Expert, Roche Diagnostics (Rotkreuz CH)

Cybersecurity for Roche Diagnostics products.

Jan 2021 - Today

Cryptography Lecturer, HSLU (Rotkreuz CH)

Lecturing cryptography to information & cybersecurity continuing education degree classes. Topics covered include: encryption (symmetric, asymmetric, hybrid), cryptographic hash functions, message-authentication-codes, digital-signatures, homomorphic encryption (partially, somewhat, fully). For completeness, the concepts are presented all the way down to their foundations in mathematics and theoretical computer science. The focus, however, is on the application of these concepts to realize and implement the classic security goals confidentiality, integrity, authentication and non-repudiation.

Sep 2018 - Today

Founder & CTO, HiPho GmbH

Founder and CTO of HiPho GmbH. Development of an online P2P marketplace for photographers using PosgreSQL, Django, Python, Bootstrap/jQuery, Docker, Kubernetes.

Jun 2019 - Dec 2020

Scientific Research Assistant, HSLU (Rotkreuz CH)

Scientific research assistant in information and cyber security. Development of the new certificate of advanced studies CAS Cyber Security Defence & Response with main responsibility around organizing cyber security labs and assessing cyber security skills of students. Teaching responsibilities (cryptography, network technologies, Python) in multiple information security and digital forensics related CAS classes and supervision of student research projects. Moreover, part of the initial core development team to conceptually devise and specify a nation-wide competence center to strengthen the cybersecurity-resilience of Swiss SME. The project resulted in a business plan that received praise from the Swiss government and will likely receive large-scale funding.

Nov 2016 - Oct 2018

Financial Software Engineer, Bloomberg LP (London UK)

Design and implementation of portfolio investment strategies across all asset classes. Part of the Bloomberg data migration team during the 1-billion dollar acquisition of the Barclays Strategy Indices with responsibility of migrating all bonds related data. Most of engineering work was conducted with either C++, C# or Python both under Windows as well as Linux.

Aug 2015 - Mar 2016

Teaching Assistant, ETHZ (Zurich CH)

Assisted lectures in computer science for mathematicians and physicists.

Sep 2013 - Feb 2014

Internship, Crypto AG (Steinhausen CH)

Design and implementation of routing functionalities for an embedded high-security cipher device.

Aug 2007 - Aug 2009

Informatics Apprenticeship, Medela AG (Baar CH)

Way-Up informatics apprenticeship for high-school graduates (compressed from 4 years to 2 years). Software development for R&D with main focus on communication protocols for medical devices.

Education


Oct 2019 - Apr 2020

CAS Cyber Security Defence & Response
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU), Luzern Switzerland

Thesis: "Identifying attackers by using machine learning on unstructured cyber threat intelligence"

Nov 2014 - Nov 2016

Master of Science in Computer Science
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich

Foci: Cryptography, Formal Methods for Information Security
Thesis: "A formal semantics for Viper"

Sep 2010 - Sep 2014

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich

Foci: Information Security
Thesis: "SSA Based Flow-Senstitive Points-To Analysis via Value Flow Graph Reachability using Binary Decision Diagrams."

Aug 2003 - Jun 2007

Matura
Gymnasium Alpenquai, Luzern Switzerland

Foci: Economics, Law and Chemistry

Computer Skills


Languages

Python, C, C++, C#, Java, ASM

Others

Git, Windows Visual Studio, PyCharm, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Bootstrap/jQuery, LaTeX

Languages


German

Native

English

Full working proficiency and holder of Cambridge C2 Proficiency (CPE) certificate.