Martin Waitz
Software Systems Architect at Siemens
Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMartin Waitz is a seasoned Software Systems Architect with 26 years' experience designing safety-critical, embedded, and real-time systems, currently shaping architectures at Siemens in Erlangen. He combines deep systems-level engineering with practical hands-on development, bridging embedded constraints and modern toolchains. An active open-source contributor, he improved syntax highlighting and modernized the build process for the widely used Gerrit Code Review project, introducing Bazel integration and frontend optimizations. His background reflects long-term commitment and technical breadth, from low-level real-time requirements to JavaScript bundling and UI details. Colleagues describe him as a thoughtful problem-solver who balances rigorous engineering with the curiosity of a "dreamer, father, coder." Trained at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, he brings institutional knowledge of German engineering culture to global collaborative projects.
26 years of coding experience
Diplom, Diplom at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
English
Stackoverflow
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23answers
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Github Skills (18)
markdown10
javascript10
gerrit10
markdown-it10
bazel10
syntax-highlighting10
css9
rollupjs9
uid8
front-end-development8
ui-design8
boost-python6
swift6
boost6
watchos6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
GerritCodeReview/gerrit
Oct 2021 - Oct 2022
Gerrit Code Review - (mirror of https://gerrit.googlesource.com/gerrit)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily contributed to improving syntax highlighting within the Gerrit Code Review project. They added support for new languages like Gherkin and Markdown by modifying the UI components and integrating with the highlight.js library. Furthermore, the user refactored the build process by integrating Bazel, and optimized the Javascript bundling and minification. They also defined environment variables for build optimization and addressed CSS styling for the syntax highlighting.
reviewgerrit
tali/Wortuhr
Dec 2020 - Jul 2021
Be careful, branches are rebased. Use repo from ESPWortuhr organization instead.
Contributions:5 PRs, 54 pushes, 12 branches in 7 months
branchesesp32
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