Gernot Hillier
Senior Engineer at Siemens
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolGernot Hillier is a senior engineer with 26 years of experience, based in Munich, who advises Siemens teams from the Linux Expert Center on integrating open source and Linux into commercial products. He combines deep hands-on systems knowledge with pragmatic guidance for developers building reliable, maintainable solutions at scale. An active open-source advocate, he contributes sporadically to projects like OpenStreetMap and FHEM, bringing practical IoT and geodata sensibilities to his work. His background as a Diplom-Informatiker underpins a careful, engineering-first approach to tooling and platform decisions. Colleagues value him for translating obscure Linux and OSS intricacies into actionable practices that reduce product risk. Outside work he channels curiosity into mapping and home automation projects that often inform creative problem-solving at Siemens.
26 years of coding experience
Diplom-Informatiker (FH), Computer Science, Diplom-Informatiker (FH), Computer Science at Hochschule Landshut
Github Skills (141)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
gernot-h/sw360python
Apr 2022 - Feb 2025
Python library for SW360 REST API access
Contributions:18 pushes, 4 branches, 1 tag in 2 years 10 months
python-libraryapipythonsw360api-access
siemens/purl-spec
Apr 2019 - Dec 2021
A minimal specification for purl aka. a package "mostly universal" URL, join the discussion at https://gitter.im/package-url/Lobby
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 2 years 8 months
specificationgitterpackage-urljoinpurl
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