We’re delighted to announce that Dr. Christian Reitwießner, the creator of the Ethereum smart contract language Solidity, is joining the Slock.it team as Advisor.

Solidity is a high-level language with a syntax similar to that of JavaScript and is designed to compile to code for the Ethereum Virtual Machine. It’s at the core of every Dapp, and makes it easy to create contracts for voting, crowdfunding, gaming, blind auctions, multi-signature wallets and more.

Christian has a PhD in Computational Complexity Theory (don’t worry, I had to look that one up, too) and is passionate about the power of cryptography.

Prior to joining Ethereum, Christian worked for Tom Tom leading a team responsible for analysing road traffic data and taking it into account in routing algorithms on personal navigation devices.

Christian shares our keen enthusiasm for open source software being made available to everyone — a fundamental pillar of the work we do here at Slock.it.

Welcome, Christian!