Björn Wächter
Senior Software Engineer EMS at Voltfang
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolBjörn Wächter is a senior software engineer based in Auckland with a long career spanning cloud, big data and embedded systems, currently focused on energy management software at Voltfang. He blends 25+ years of engineering foundations with recent hands-on cloud and SDE experience at dSPACE and Amazon, and has delivered large-scale data platforms for financial and telecom clients. Comfortable as both a freelancer and an enterprise engineer, he moves fluidly between architecture, platform engineering and implementation, particularly in Hadoop/big data and cloud-native stacks. His academic grounding is a Diplom-Ingenieur in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from RWTH Aachen, which informs a systems-oriented approach to complex problems. Notably, he pivoted from long-term consulting roles into senior cloud and product-focused engineering in the last five years, demonstrating adaptability across industries. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic engineer who prioritises reliable, maintainable systems and rapid delivery.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom Ingenieur, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Diplom Ingenieur, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at RWTH Aachen University
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Github Skills (27)
hortonworks9
gis7
cloudera6
openstreetmap6
ftp-server5
server5
wrapper5
scala5
ftp5
kerberos5
spark5
hdfs4
home-assistant4
python-client4
python4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
generaliinformatik/hdfs-over-ftp
Jun 2020 - Mar 2021
FTP server which works on a top of HDFS and supports Kerberos authentication
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
clouderaconnectorauthenticationgridfsftp-server
BjoernWaechter/py-eebus
Jan 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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