Matthias Lechner is an Open Source Architect with 19 years of software engineering experience, specializing in cloud-edge architectures and industrial IoT for companies like Siemens, SAP, and SEW Eurodrive. He has repeatedly led cross-functional efforts to turn research into production—building Kubernetes-based edge platforms, real-time EtherCAT stacks, and hybrid cloud proofs-of-concept that bridge OT and cloud-native worlds. At Siemens he helped drive the unit-level shift to SaaS and platform adoption, and his background in embedded systems and device drivers gives him rare insight across hardware, edge runtime, and cloud delivery. Now at ZEDEDA, he focuses on open-source strategies that scale industrial software while enabling developer-friendly CI/CD and compatibility practices. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture, deep protocol expertise, and a knack for translating industrial constraints into modern, maintainable platforms.
19 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
M.Eng. Software Engineering for Embedded Systems, M.Eng. Software Engineering for Embedded Systems at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
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Matthias Lechner - Open Source Architect at ZEDEDA