Alexander Willer
Managing Director at Eilbek Research
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Willer is a Managing Director and systems-minded engineer with 11+ years of cross-domain experience spanning enterprise IT, cloud-native architectures, embedded hardware and mechatronic systems. He excels at abstracting complex problem spaces to identify promising solution candidates, then turning those ideas into practice through hands-on design, evaluation plans and tooling for development, test and deployment. His background ranges from high-speed, manufacturable PCB and FPGA designs to Linux-based infrastructure, virtualization and containerization, enabling him to bridge hardware and software teams effectively. Alexander contributes to notable open-source hardware/software tooling such as the OpenPNP pick-and-place project, where he improved scripting engine pooling for performance and robustness. Based in Hamburg, he combines product-focused engineering with clear communication to technical and non-technical stakeholders, and has a knack for quickly mastering new domains and practical constraints.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
ICT specialist (Systems integration), ICT specialist (Systems integration) at Gewerbeschule 18 Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg
Github Skills (8)
apache-commons10
javas10
commons10
pool10
multithreading10
scripting10
java10
testing9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
openpnp/openpnp
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
Open Source SMT Pick and Place Hardware and Software
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 23 commits, 2 PRs in 8 days
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily focused on improving the scripting functionality within the OpenPNP project. Their contributions included refactoring the caching mechanism for scripting engines, replacing a simple cache with a KeyedObjectPool for improved performance and thread safety. They implemented features to allow for engine pooling, manage engine lifecycles, and added tests to validate the robustness of the new pooling approach. The user also made several enhancements, including measures to ensure the proper return of engines to the pool after script exceptions, and adding methods to obtain and manage the available engines.
placesmtpickhardwarepick-and-place
alexanderwiller/openpnp
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Open Source SMT Pick and Place Hardware and Software
Contributions:13 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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