Martin Merkumians
System Architect at electrify
Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolMartin Merkumians is a systems architect with 12 years of experience designing and delivering industrial automation and energy management platforms, currently leading architecture and product strategy for electrify’s aggregation and flexibility optimization platform. He bridges academic research and industry practice—having led a research group at TU Wien and taught automation standards like IEC 61131/61499—while advising C-level stakeholders on technical strategy. Hands-on in embedded and low-level systems, Martin has contributed to open-source EtherNet/IP stack development (OpENer), demonstrating expertise in protocol stacks, ARM toolchains and converging IT/OT landscapes. He combines deep domain knowledge in energy systems and control with a pragmatic ability to move concepts into tested prototypes and production-ready platforms.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of Technology2001, Telecommunications, 2001, Telecommunications at Technologisches Gewerbemuseum
Italian, Spanish, German, English
Github Skills (6)
c1710
embedded10
c1110
sys10
cmake9
arm9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
EIPStackGroup/OpENer
Aug 2013 - Dec 2022
OpENer is an EtherNet/IP stack for I/O adapter devices. It supports multiple I/O and explicit connections and includes objects and services for making EtherNet/IP-compliant products as defined in the ODVA specification.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Embedded Systems Engineer
Back-end Developer & Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:5 releases, 78 reviews, 773 commits in 9 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Martin has been working on the implementation of an EtherNet/IP stack for I/O adapter devices within the OpENer repository. Their contributions focus on low-level C code for managing and manipulating data within the EtherNet/IP protocol stack. The user has primarily been working on the core infrastructure aspects, including toolchain configuration for ARM-NONE-EABI, and code for creating a basic system and integrating networking libraries.
openernetmikocipdefinedethernet-ip
EIPStackGroup/OpENerFileObject
Apr 2020 - Jul 2022
An open-source implementation of the CIP File Object
Contributions:6 reviews, 19 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 3 months
enipcipcommonindustrialprotocolethernetindustrialprotocolethernet
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