Kai Zimmermann
Founder at Kai Zimmermann Media
Waiblingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolKai Zimmermann is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 10+ years of experience building scalable products and platforms, blending a Master’s in Computer Science from Ulm with strong entrepreneurial instincts. He has led product and engineering efforts at Bosch and Microsoft focused on IoT, Software Defined Vehicle, DevOps and digital twins, and drove the Bosch IoT Rollouts product as Chief Product Owner. As project lead and committer on the Eclipse hawkBit open-source project he contributed backend improvements and robust target-search testing for a widely used device-update framework. Today he runs Merlins Bricks, a data-first community platform serving over 21,000 brick building sets, combining technical craftsmanship with creative community engagement. Known for reducing boilerplate through pragmatic design (including lambda-driven refactors) and for mentoring cross-functional teams, he thrives where distributed systems, product strategy and niche communities meet.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Internet Science and Technology, Bachelor’s Degree Internet Science and Technology at Fachhochschule KielMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Ulm UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at RMIT University
English, German
Github Skills (7)
javas10
back-end-development10
repos10
java10
repository-pattern10
spring-boot10
testing10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit
Jan 2016 - Jan 2021
Eclipse hawkBit™
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 713 commits, 608 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Kai's commits primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the hawkbit repository, specifically improving target search capabilities and addressing bug fixes. The user added tests for the target search functionality, including various filter options, and reduced boilerplate code. They also used lambdas to reduce boilerplate code.
eclipseiotdevice-managementeclipsesoftware-provisioninginternet-of-things
kaizimmerm/hawkbit-extensions
Jul 2018 - Nov 2020
Contributions:125 pushes, 26 branches in 2 years 4 months
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