ChrisΒ Muench
Chief Executive Officer at Hyviva
Duvall, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolChris Muench is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and CEO with nine years of executive experience and a 30+ year engineering background spanning industrial automation, IoT, UX and energy systems. He founded Connectivity-Labs, led its acquisition by TRUMPF, and now runs Hyviva, channeling deep expertise in hydrogen electrolysis and energy management toward commercial decarbonization solutions. Chris combines hands-on software architecture (including the C-DEngine NMI and early OPC UA work for hydrogen electrolysers) with product leadership across embedded systems, cloud services and digital twins. He has steered cross-disciplinary teams through patents, standards work (chairing Solar/PV efforts in OPC Foundation), and novel AR and gaming projects, demonstrating a knack for bridging industry standards and applied R&D. Based in Duvall, Washington, he blends industrial-scale thinking with startup agility, often collaborating closely with family and small teams to accelerate clean energy adoption. An early game developer turned industrial innovator, he brings a rare mix of long-term product stewardship and practical invention to energy and IoT challenges.
9 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor DTA (equivalent to US Computer Science Bachelor), Bachelor DTA (equivalent to US Computer Science Bachelor) at NTA Isny
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (176)
nmi10
monitoring9
sensor9
tplink9
rapid9
iot-projects9
data-visualization9
openframeworks9
solar-energy9
dashboard9
energy9
prediction-model9
grafana9
hvac9
elasticsearch9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
TRUMPF-IoT/cdePlugins
May 2020 - Dec 2022
Plugins for your IoT Projects
Contributions:10 releases, 24 reviews, 29 commits in 2 years 7 months
iotiot-projects
TRUMPF-IoT/cdeSamples
Jul 2020 - Mar 2024
Samples for the C-DEngine eco-system
Contributions:2 reviews, 7 PRs, 25 pushes in 3 years 8 months
cppecoeco-system
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