Jo-philipp Wich
Senior Associate Consultant
Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
Summary
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RockstarJo-Philipp Wich is a Senior Associate Consultant based in Leipzig with 18 years of hands-on software and network engineering experience, advising clients on IT strategy and implementation. He brings deep low-level networking expertise evidenced by sustained contributions to the OpenWrt ecosystem—improving wireless tooling, routing stability, package integration, and LuCI web UI refinements. His background spans architecture and leadership roles at COMVEL, 7travel and Bookandsmile, blending systems-level development with product-facing web work. Known for fixing tricky memory and stack issues, his commits show a pragmatic focus on reliability and performance in constrained environments. He combines consultancy skills with active open-source maintenance, often touching both build/toolchain and runtime networking stacks. Colleagues value him for translating complex network internals into stable, deployable solutions.
18 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
German, English
Github Skills (47)
network-configuration10
debug10
javascript10
package-management10
scripting10
net10
memory-management10
wireless10
build-system10
user-interface10
kernel-module10
c-programming10
c1110
linux-kernel10
makefile10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
lede-project/source
May 2016 - Sep 2022
Mirror of https://git.lede-project.org/?p=source.git Please send your PRs against this tree. They will be merged via staging trees and appear in this tree once the staging trees get merged back into source.git
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:128 PRs, 9846 pushes, 32 branches in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jo-philipp primarily contributed to the `iwinfo` utility, focusing on improving wireless network information gathering. They implemented conversions between frequency and channel, added support for the SR71-15 radio, improved the display of network information in the command-line interface, refactored hardware database to use a new file, and fixed the logic for handling IBSS and WPA supplicant scanning mode. They also made a few other minor bug fixes to the utility.
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openwrt/openwrt
Jun 2016 - Mar 2025
This repository is a mirror of https://git.openwrt.org/openwrt/openwrt.git It is for reference only and is not active for check-ins. We will continue to accept Pull Requests here. They will be merged via staging trees then into openwrt.git.
Role in this project:Back-end & Network Engineer
Back-end & Network EngineerContributions:36 reviews, 167 PRs, 7032 pushes in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jo-philipp's contributions focused on low-level network utilities and drivers, especially for wireless devices. They fixed frequency/channel and channel/frequency conversions in the iwinfo utility and printing of all existing wireless interfaces when the utility is called without arguments. They also added support for various new features, including adding new hardware entries and adding the functionality to show the physical radio name. The user also touched code related to the core toolchain for improved performance.
mergedopenwrtinspull-requestsstaging
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