Carsten Sauerbrey is a Test Architect with eight years of software engineering experience, currently shaping test strategies and tooling at Rohde & Schwarz. He blends deep hands-on backend and QA expertise—demonstrated by contributions to projects like pyvisa (instrument control bindings) and Conan Center recipes—with practical knowledge of CMake, package management, and automated testing. His background in application development and a Master of Engineering underpin a pragmatic approach to building reliable test frameworks for measurement and embedded systems. An Executive MBA from Quantic complements his technical skillset with strategic and product-aware decision making. Colleagues value him for turning complex integration and build challenges into repeatable solutions and for a particular interest in agentic AI as an emerging focus area.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Executive MBA, Executive MBA at Quantic School of Business and Technology
Master of Engineering - MEng, Master of Engineering - MEng at Rosenheim Technical University of Applied Sciences
Contributions:31 commits, 2 PRs, 14 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Carsten contributed significantly to the development of recipes for the ConanCenter repository. Their work involved creating and modifying Conan recipes for various libraries, including zmq, czmq, and zyre. They also addressed issues related to shared libraries and build configurations, ensuring compatibility and proper linking. Furthermore, the user demonstrated proficiency in CMake and package management concepts for Conan.
A Python package with bindings to the "Virtual Instrument Software Architecture" VISA library, in order to control measurement devices and test equipment via GPIB, RS232, or USB.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Contributions:1 review, 12 commits, 1 PR in 1 month
Contributions summary:Carsten primarily focused on enhancing the `pyvisa/pyvisa` library. Their contributions included implementing a new `open_resource` attribute using the `visalib`, fixing code style issues, and adding unit tests for the new functionality. Additionally, the user made several edits to the documentation, specifically regarding the backends and also fixed syntax errors.
software-architecturepythonrs232usbmeasurement
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Carsten Sauerbrey - Test Architect at Rohde & Schwarz