Michael Stal
Principal Key Expert Engineer at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolMichael Stal is a Principal Key Expert Engineer and Certified Senior Software Architect at Siemens Corporate Technology with a career spanning back to 1991, specializing in software architecture, distributed systems, middleware and embedded IoT platforms. He combines deep research experience—co-authoring seminal Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture volumes and leading projects on software product lines and functional programming—with hands-on consultancy for enterprise customers and platforms like Kubernetes and microcontroller/SBC ecosystems. As an extraordinary professor at the University of Groningen and long-time editor-in-chief of JavaSPEKTRUM, he bridges academia, industry and technical publishing to mentor the next generation of architects. His current focus mixes Digitalization, (Gen)AI and edge/embedded systems, reflecting a rare blend of theoretical rigor and practical deployment experience across decades of large-scale engineering.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom Computer Science Mathematics, Diplom Computer Science Mathematics at Technical University of MunichProfessor Software Engineering, Professor Software Engineering at University of Groningen
German
Github Skills (17)
macos-big-sur8
raspberry-pi-pico8
technical-debt5
3d-printer5
usb5
raspberry3
quantum-computing3
automator3
gcode3
arduino2
arduino-library2
firmware1
esp82661
webserver1
macos1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ms1963/SleepyPico
May 2021 - Aug 2022
Weather Station Example for using sleep and dormant mode of Raspberry Pi Pico and SSD1306, BME280
Contributions:1 release, 109 commits, 106 pushes in 1 year 3 months
raspberry-pi-pico
ms1963/mathplus
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:374 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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