Profile

As a dedicated software engineer, I offer solutions to complex technical challenges on-time and onquality in a wide range of applications. My approach combines technical excellence with a strong focus on collaboration, ensuring seamless integration into existing teams and workflows. I strive to deliver immediate, tangible and sustainable value, enabling clients to meet their strategic objectives.

Professional Skills

• Experience in:
  • fundamental research
  • particle/X-ray detectors
  • satcom
  • networks
  • defense
  • medical devices
  • robotics
  • control engineering
  • low power and sensor applications

Software engineering

• Using C, Rust, C++, Python, POSIX shellscripts, JavaScript/TypeScript and more
• Web, userspace applications (Linux, Windows), Linux kernel (development, fork and module maintenance, board bring-up), real-time (FreeRTOS, Zephyr, Linux PREEMPT_RT), bare metal, bootloaders (U-Boot, barebox, and more)
• modular and object-oriented design, applying clean code principles, SOLID, design patterns
• Collaboration and review using git, svn, GitLab, GitHub, JIRA, and more
• Automated system, integration and unit testing as well as continuous integration (using Gitlab CI/CD, pytest, language-specific unit test / mocking libraries and more), static analysis; shift-left testing in particular in embedded contexts, TDD, model-based testing; simulation and emulation using virtualization and containerization
• Databases: modeling and implementation (SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle)
• Networks: Ethernet (incl. MAC/PHY handling, incl. single pair and optical), Wi-Fi, 2G/3G/4G, and more; IP networks: basic services (DNS, routing, firewalls, NAT, VPN), application protocols (proprietary on top of TCP and UDP, HTTP, etc.) and high-level APIs (e.g. REST), network device performance (lag, throughput, ordering, jitter)
• Parallel processing: SMP and AMP, multithreading, distributed systems, IPC, asynchronous programming
• Security: encryption, cryptographic signatures, certificates, secure boot (with hardware root of trust), fuzz testing, containerization, sandboxing
• On different architectures (x86, Arm Cortex-A/Cortex-M, PPC, AVR, MIPS and Microblaze) and processors (e.g. AMD/Xilinx Zynq Ultrascale+, Zynq-7000, and more; NXP Layerscape, i.MX6, PowerQUICC, XMC4000, and Kinetis; TI AM3x, AM4x, AM5x and MSP432; Microchip ATSAMA5, PIC32, ATmega, ATtiny; STM32; Nordic nRF)
• Native and cross-compilation using Buildroot, Yocto as well as CMake, GNU make, autotools, West and others
• Bus systems: PCIe, USB, SPI, I2C, Modbus, AXI4, and more

Electrical engineering:

• Digital and analog electronics (simulation, design, layout, review, and test)
• Conforming to specific standards (EMC, medical devices, explosive atmospheres)
• FPGA engineering: VHDL and Verilog on Xilinx/AMD Zynq Ultrascale+, Zynq-7000, Virtex-6, Virtex-5, Spartan-3E, Lattice iCE40)

Technical Leadership

• Leading teams of up to 10 engineers
• Introduction and implementation of Scrum and other agile methodologies
• Recruitment of electrical and software engineers

Project and process management

• Requirements analysis and specification, architecture, development planning, verification and release management, risk management
• Implementation and application of ISO 9001, ISO 13485, IEC 62304, IEC 60601-1, ISO 14971
• Definition, documentation and handling of software and electronics regulatory affairs
• Open-source license compliance