Leon Kiefer
Technical Lead Of Infrastructure And Platform
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolLeon Kiefer is a Technical Lead of Infrastructure and Platform based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building cloud-native microservices, DevOps platforms and AI/ML applications for healthcare at voize (YC W22). He combines formal training in software engineering (MSc/BSc, Universität Stuttgart) with hands-on Linux administration and platform ownership, having run e‑learning systems and production servers as a HiWi. A passionate open-source contributor and LPIC-1 certified engineer, he has notable IoT and embedded systems work—contributing IR decoding, Somfy RTS support and CI/CD improvements to the widely used OpenMQTTGateway. Leon designs and implements infrastructure as code, end-to-end deployment pipelines and resilient architectures, and brings an architect’s rigor (iSAQB certified) to pragmatic, production-focused delivery.
10 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering, 1,2, Master of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering, 1,2 at Universität Stuttgart
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Github Skills (21)
c-language10
mqtt10
mqttnet10
esp826610
sys10
esp3210
embedded10
cprogramming-language10
arduino10
home-automation10
json9
githubaction-workflow8
github-ci8
platformio8
btle7
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
1technophile/OpenMQTTGateway
Apr 2019 - May 2021
MQTT gateway for ESP8266 or ESP32 with bidirectional 433mhz/315mhz/868mhz, Infrared communications, BLE, Bluetooth, beacons detection, mi flora, mi jia, LYWSD02, LYWSD03MMC, Mi Scale, TPMS, BBQ thermometer compatibility & LoRa.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 14 commits, 15 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Leon primarily contributed to the functionality of the OpenMQTTGateway project, focusing on enhancing communication protocols and device compatibility for home automation. They added features related to Infrared (IR) data decoding and sending protocols, especially for various AC units. Significant work was done integrating and configuring the ZactuatorSomfy module, enabling control of Somfy RTS devices. The user also addressed bugs and improved the system by refactoring code, updating the prepare deployment script, and integrating GitHub Actions for CI/CD.
lywsd03mmcmeterarduino-unoflorahome-automation
Legion2/download-release-action
Feb 2019 - Oct 2019
GitHub Action for downloading GitHub release archives
Contributions:3 releases, 13 commits, 3 PRs in 8 months
downloadinggithub-release
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