Alexander Wirthmüller
Senior Staff Engineer at indie Semiconductor
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolAlexander Wirthmüller is a Senior Staff Engineer and founder based in Munich with eight years of formal experience and a two-decade technical trajectory spanning embedded software, photonics, clean-room processing and system integration. He leads product engineering at indie Semiconductor while running MPSI Technologies, where he builds model-driven tools that automate repetitive code generation for embedded projects. His background includes FPGA-SoC development for FSO-Ethernet transceivers, quantum- and nano-device design, and managing a €1.1M EU research work package that bridged semiconductor tech and robotics. Comfortable across hardware and software stacks, he combines hands-on lab, PCB and optical/mechanical design with scalable embedded software architecture. An early practitioner of model-based code generation, he has translated research prototypes into practical tools and small-scale production devices.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MSc EE Electrical Engineering focus on Micro- and Optoelectronics, MSc EE Electrical Engineering focus on Micro- and Optoelectronics at ETH ZürichMaster's thesis Silicon Photonics, Master's thesis Silicon Photonics at Columbia University
German, English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (1)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mpsitech/wzem-WhizniumSBE-Engine-Monitor
Dec 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch, 16 tags in 4 years 4 months
mpsitech/The-Whiznium-Documentation
Dec 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:26 commits, 20 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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