Philipp has been programming ever since he could type. Starting out in web development, he gradually moved into hardware development. After studying Electrical and Information Engineering, which he completed with a PhD, Philipp joined lowRISC in Cambridge, England, to work on the OpenTitan security chip. He currently works at IBM R&D, ensuring that IBM Z mainframe processors used by banks operate flawlessly. Philipp is at home in the open source community and is one of the founding directors of the FOSSi Foundation.

Areas of interest

Verification, open source, communities

What was your first hardware project?

At primary school, we wanted to chat secretly during lessons. A friend of mine knew Morse code. That inspired me to stick a lamp and a switch onto a piece of cardboard and connect them with long cables between the school desks. It didn’t work very well at all.

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