Interview with Dieter Sommer, Senior Technical Program Manager at DFINITY Foundation

This week we have the pleasure to interview on the Let's talk ICP Podcast, one of the key people on the DFINITY Foundation and one of the main contributors to the Internet Computer blockchain evolution and development.

Dieter Sommer, Senior Technical Program Manager at DFINITY Foundation on this episode explains topics as interesting as his previous experience at IBM Research Zurich and in Raiffeisen Schweiz (the third largest Swiss bank), how joined DFINITY, All the details about he Bitcoin integration on the IC, the phases and difficulties behind of the Ethereum integration, the advantages of the Chain Key Bitcoin (ckBTC), Oxford Hackathon, How DFINITY is addressing the controversial "Tainted" Bitcoin, which IC dapp he uses every day, the people who he admire at the Foundation and much more...

Dieter has earned a Master's degree in Computer Science with a focus on computer security and a minor in Business Administration as well as a PhD in computer security.

He started his professional career at IBM Research Zurich where he was working with Jan Camenisch on systems aspects of the Identity Mixer anonymous credential systems, his PhD topic.

He started his 11 years stay at IBM Research as a Predoctoral Researcher and moved on to the positions of Research Staff Member and Advisory Project Manager, leading a large international R&D program. He later became Technical Project Manager in a large international R&D project. Besides his project and program management activities he was involved in engineering and architecture and has filed multiple patents, mostly in the area of computer security.

Before joining DFINITY, he was the Security Architect of Raiffeisen Schweiz, the third-largest Swiss bank, with broad company-wide responsibilities in the area of IT security.

Dieter Sommer Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dieter-m-sommer-944b5743/?originalSubdomain=ch

Dieter Sommer twitter: https://twitter.com/dieter_icp?s=20

Ethereum Integration Forum: https://forum.dfinity.org/t/technical-working-group-blockchain-integrations/18964

Oxford Hackathon Summit Immersion Education: https://summit.immersiveeducation.org/hackathon.html