Matthias Pfau
Co-founder & CEO at Tutanota
Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolMatthias Pfau is the co-founder and CEO of Tutanota, leading development of one of the world's most secure email services with over a decade of hands-on engineering and product leadership. With 12+ years in software, he combines deep technical roots from roles as a developer and architect at FinanzIT and as a software engineer at Zühlke with strategic startup building. Based in Hanover, Germany, he leverages a Dipl.-Inf. in information technology to bridge practical engineering, cryptography-focused security, and user-focused product design. Matthias is known for embedding privacy-by-design into scalable email infrastructure and for shepherding open, user-centric security standards in a consumer product. His career shows a steady progression from systems architect to CEO while remaining closely involved in the technical roadmap. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technologist who favors durable, auditable solutions over hype.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Information technology, Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Information technology at FHDW Hannover
English, German
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Github Skills (125)
http10
shodan10
muon10
jspm10
security10
e-mail10
http-client10
dmg10
eclipse10
encryption10
javascript10
snap10
linux10
nsis10
deb10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
mpfau/cassandra
Apr 2020 - Apr 2024
Mirror of Apache Cassandra
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years
cassandraapachedatabaseapache-cassandrajava
mpfau/systemjs-hot-reloader
Jan 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
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