Kolja Windeler
Manager UC JDM Programm at Sennheiser
Celle, Lower Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolKolja Windeler is a seasoned electrical engineer and program manager with 14 years of experience leading cross-site teams and complex product development programs, currently managing the UC JDM program at Sennheiser. He combines hands-on hardware and FPGA development experience with strategic portfolio and organizational optimization, having led multidisciplinary teams in Germany and on a two-year expat assignment in Houston. Known for turning concept-phase projects into production-ready products, he blends technical depth in industrial electronics with pragmatic program governance and risk/budget control. Kolja’s background in electrical engineering with a computer science focus enables him to bridge hardware, firmware and product strategy, while his people-first leadership has scaled teams to ~25 staff across locations. An under-the-radar strength is his history of building development platforms (e.g., FPGA-based UHF reader prototypes) that accelerate subsequent R&D delivery.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Electrical engineering with focus on computer science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Electrical engineering with focus on computer science at Leibniz Universität Hannover
German, English
Github Skills (108)
displays10
custom-component10
python10
youtube-api10
energy10
automation10
home-assistant10
uart10
mqtt10
youtube10
filtering10
music10
home-automation10
battery-level10
garden10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
KoljaWindeler/ics
Mar 2020 - Feb 2022
Integration that displays the next event of an ics link (support reoccuring events)
Contributions:10 releases, 2 reviews, 62 commits in 1 year 11 months
appointmentseventsdisplaysicslink
KoljaWindeler/ytube_music_player
Nov 2020 - Nov 2022
YouTube music player for homeassistant
Contributions:99 releases, 16 reviews, 311 commits in 1 year 11 months
youtube-music-playeryoutube-musicyoutubehome-assistantcustom-component
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