C++ embedded dev, with 11+ years expertise, of which 7+ years in a leadership role

1/2019 – offen

>> Summary of the role and project:

Product owner of the Positioning domain + technical lead for a team of up to 6 people.
Worked on the development of Telematics Control Units (TCUs) for multiple customers (eg: BMW, Volvo).

The Positioning domain consists of:
- On an embedded target, retrieve data from a GNSS receiver, process and expose it to other applications
- Integration of a dead-reckoning (DR) solution
- Cater to other requirements of the TCU (eg: Lifecycle management, etc)


>> Technical responsibilities

- assess / clarify the customers' requirements in the RFQ phase and beyond
- clarify and create requirements for suppliers and internal teams
- architecture and design
- develop new features
- bug fixing (by means of trace analysis, gdb, Valgrind, address sanitizer)
- code reviews
- develop tools to improve workflows (in Python, bash, Excel)
- mentoring the team members
- communication with local and remote teams (incl. from other companies)
- write documentation
- conducted technical interviews for new employees


>> Non-technical responsibilities

- define, plan and track the tasks for the entire team
- communication with management, customers, suppliers and with other teams


>> As a people manager (limited time)

- set targets, development plans, conduct performance appraisals, discuss salaries, etc.
- conducted management interviews for new employees


>> Technologies used

- C++ in a Linux environment (incl. C++11 features)
- Linux
- git
- g++, GDB
- CMake
- Yocto / Bitbake
- regex
- CommonAPI
- GENIVI


>> Tools used

- Gerrit and Bitbucket (a.k.a. stash)
- Jenkins
- Atlassian products (JIRA, Confluence, Stash)
- IBM ALM
- UML: Enterprise Architect, PlantUML
- DLTviewer
- CodeSonar (static code analysis)
- Excel (for technical analysis, for tracking and reporting statuses)


tags: leadership, lead, automotive, embedded, GNSS, GPS, object-oriented programming, OOP, C++11, GENIVI, Linux, Agile, SAFe Agile

Application lifecycle management (ALM), C++, Confluence, Embedded Entwicklung / hardwarenahe Entwicklung, Embedded Linux, Embedded Software, Embedded Systems, Enterprise Architect (EA), Git, Jira, Linux Entwicklung, Microsoft Excel, Product Owner, Technische Projektleitung / Teamleitung, UML

8/2015 – 12/2018

// outsourcing as part of Luxoft Professional until July 2017

Lead a team of up to 12 people to develop the backend functionality of the Media Player application, for the next-generation headunits of Mercedes cars (2018+ models).

Media Player functionality = playback of streaming media and of music and videos off USB, BTA, iAP and MTP devices.

I was actively involved in feature development and bug-fixing since the very beginning of this project, when no lines of code had been written, yet.

Experience with the Agile framework.


>> Technical responsibilities

- communicate with local and remote teams to make architectural decisions, to debug issues, to clarify various aspects of the project, etc.
- make / collaborate on architectural and design decisions
- develop new features
- analyze tickets and fix issues (bugfixing)
- mentoring new team members (seniors, regular developer and juniors)
- interviewing candidates for open positions


>> Non-technical responsibilities

- participating in discussions with Harman's and customer's management (customer = Daimler)
- planning and tracking the development tasks for the entire team
- organizing and leading team meetings
- creating reports, incl. developing tools for automatic generations of reports (in Python, Excel, C++)


>> Technologies used

- C++, incl. C++11 features (eg: smart pointers, move semantics, threads, etc.)
- design patterns
- multithreaded programming
- Linux programming
- Cinemo multimedia libraries
- Thrift communication protocol
- Python (in order to develop helper tools)
- UML diagrams
- Git (intensive), SVN (to a lesser degree)
- Jam build tool; tag: Jamfiles
- SQL
- Gracenote
- GTest & GMock


>> Tools used

- Atlassian products (JIRA, Stash, Confluence, Bamboo)
- Enterprise Architect
- CodeSonar
- Excel (to fetch data from the bug tracker and monitor the bug status, plan tasks, generate reports)


tags: leadership, automotive, embedded, C++, lead, OOP

C++, Confluence, Embedded Software, Enterprise Architect (EA), Git, Jira, Linux Entwicklung, Python, Software Design, SQL, Technische Projektleitung / Teamleitung, UML

11/2013 – 7/2015

Feature development and bug fixing for the Data Connectivity domain of a Telematics Control Unit (TCU), for Daimler.
I was involved in this project since its beginning, having a major role in its development (in terms of design and implementation).

Data Connectivity domain = management of WiFi, Bluetooth and USB connections

Agile Methodologie, Bash Shell, C++, Embedded Linux, Jira, Linux Entwicklung, Software Design, Softwareentwicklung (allg.)