Christian Paetz
Chief Executive Officer at Aqua-Scope Technologies
Zwickau, Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Paetz is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and CEO with over a decade of leadership experience building and scaling companies at the intersection of hardware, smart home ecosystems, and market strategy. He founded and led Z-Wave Europe as the largest European value-added distributor for Z-Wave smart home products and now leads Aqua-Scope Technologies, demonstrating a consistent ability to translate technical innovation into commercial channels. His background spans academia and industry—from a PhD in electrical engineering and a professorship at Chemnitz University of Technology to product and business unit leadership roles—bridging research rigor with go-to-market execution. As European spokesperson for the Z-Wave Alliance he combined technical advocacy with ecosystem development, a thread that runs through his career. Based in Zwickau, Germany, he brings deep domain expertise in wireless home automation and a knack for aligning engineering roadmaps with distribution and partnership strategies. Less obvious: he moves fluidly between founding startups and shaping industry standards, making him as comfortable in the lab or lecture hall as in boardroom negotiations.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
PhD electrical engineering, PhD electrical engineering at Technische Universität ChemnitzBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Technische Universität Dresden
English, German, Russian
Github Skills (42)
lorawan9
arduino-library9
chips8
esp82667
expert7
qbcore-framework7
iot7
smartthings7
node-red7
hikvision7
nrf527
esp327
arduino6
nimble6
hue6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
christianpaetz/lorain
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:31 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
christianpaetz/lorawan-devices
Mar 2022 - Sep 2022
Device Repository for LoRaWAN devices
Contributions:2 pushes in 6 months
lorawanlorawan-devicesiot
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