Ferdinand Linnenberg
Software Engineer at STACKIT
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolFerdinand Linnenberg is a software engineer and development lead with 11 years of experience, specializing in Industrial IoT, cybersecurity, and cloud-native platform engineering. He was a core architect and principal developer of the United Manufacturing Hub open-source platform—authoring over 1.5M lines of Go in production—and has end-to-end ownership across frontend, backend, databases, and deployments. Ferdinand blends low-level industrial protocol expertise (OPC UA, S7comm, Modbus) with modern tooling like Kubernetes, Rust, and TimescaleDB to build scalable, secure SaaS for manufacturing. He is co-inventor on a patent for secure IoT communication (US20250279900A1) and has a track record of technical writing and community stewardship for his project. Based in Cologne, he pairs academic grounding in cybersecurity with practical full-stack delivery, often surfacing non-obvious security and reliability improvements in complex automation environments.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Media Informatics, Media Informatics at HTWK LeipzigCybersecurity, Cybersecurity at Universität des Saarlandes
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Github Skills (200)
data-stream10
data-manipulation10
interpreter10
encoding10
compression10
cpp10
scada10
streaming-data10
mcaptcha10
programming-language10
message-queue10
key-storage10
cqrs10
mqtt10
stream10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
united-manufacturing-hub/united-manufacturing-hub
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
The Open-Source toolkit to build your own reliable and secure Industrial IoT platform.
Contributions:32 releases, 477 reviews, 721 commits in 1 year 6 months
secureemqxopcuascadaindustrial
Scarjit/MMGK_Project1
Dec 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:26 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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