Andreas Schmidt
Group Lead at Saarland Informatics Campus
Saarland, Germany
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Top SchoolAndreas Schmidt is a computer scientist and group lead with 11 years of experience researching, teaching, and building dependable cyber-physical systems, currently based in Saarland, Germany. He combines academic rigor—holding a Dr.-Ing. and pursuing a Habilitation—with hands-on development in dependable software engineering, networking, and embedded systems. His work spans research labs and applied R&D at Saarland Informatics Campus and Fraunhofer IESE, where he teaches practical dependability with Rust and leads projects on networked and safety-critical systems. An active open-source contributor, he has contributed SWO support and Nordic MCU integrations to the widely used probe-rs embedded debugging toolset. Colleagues value him for bridging theory and practice: he moves from protocol- and clock-level embedded details up to system-level dependability design. He brings a practical, tool-focused mindset to making cyber-physical systems both transparent and robust.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Engineering, Doctor of Engineering at Universität des SaarlandesHabilitation, Habilitation at Saarland University
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
debugging10
debug10
probe10
rs10
rsp10
sys10
arm10
embedded10
rust10
risc-v9
singleton6
synchronization6
angularjs6
gulp6
angularjs-directive6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
probe-rs/probe-rs
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
A debugging toolset and library for debugging embedded ARM and RISC-V targets on a separate host
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 8 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Andreas contributed to the `probe-rs` project by adding and improving SWO (Serial Wire Output) support. Their commits introduced SWO functionality for JLink probes, including enabling and disabling SWO and reading SWO data with timeout functionality. Additionally, the user implemented support for specific Nordic microcontrollers, configuring the CLOCK_TRACECONFIG register for SWO data transmission.
stlinkjlinkrisc-varm-coresdebugging
netzdoktor/Spannungsteiler
Oct 2019 - Nov 2021
A #Pfaffhack2.0 Project
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 2 years 1 month
reactdotnetjavascriptsketchupidris
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