Mats Wichmann
Semi Retired But Looking at Self-employed
Questa, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolMats Wichmann is an Open Source and Open Standards technologist with over two decades of experience shaping Linux, IoT, and Tizen ecosystems through specification work, certification programs, and hands-on engineering. A core developer on the widely used SCons build tool and an active Python/C programmer, he blends rigorous test automation and code review practice with clear specification writing and community leadership. He led efforts that pushed multiple standards to ISO adoption (POSIX, LSB, OCF) and launched the Open Connectivity Foundation certification program, demonstrating rare end-to-end expertise from standards to certified product. Semi-retired and based in New Mexico, he remains available for permanent roles or consulting, contributing volunteer-driven projects and mentoring newcomers. Colleagues know him for pragmatic engineering that prioritizes interoperability and for quietly tightening the seams of complex distributed projects.
15 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
English, Swedish, German, Korean, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
build-tools10
scons10
python10
build-automation10
test-automation10
testing10
runc6
gcc6
linux-containers6
docker6
tizen6
grpc6
iotivity6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
SCons/scons
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
SCons - a software construction tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:488 reviews, 20 commits, 653 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Mats primarily contributed to the testing and refinement of the SCons build tool's CPPDEFINES handling functionality. They implemented and expanded test cases, focusing on ensuring correct behavior when prepending and appending preprocessor macros with various data types. Their work involved modifying existing test files and adding new tests to cover a wider range of scenarios, including interactions with tuples, lists, and dictionaries within the CPPDEFINES context. Furthermore, they addressed specific issues related to environment cloning and merging flags, solidifying the reliability of the SCons build process.
python-3-6python38python3python37build-tools
mwichmann/iotivity-mdw
Jul 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:76 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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