Michael Werle
Senior Security Engineer at Woven by Toyota
Chiyoda, Japan
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RockstarMichael Werle is a Senior Security Engineer with 17 years of software engineering experience, currently leading security efforts at Woven by Toyota in Chiyoda, Japan. He has deep DRM and runtime systems expertise developed over a long tenure at Sony Interactive Entertainment and Sony Computer Entertainment, where he rose to Principal Engineer focused on protecting content and platforms. A full-stack contributor in open source projects like the Subsurface divelog and EDDiscovery (popular among diving and Elite Dangerous communities), he brings practical UI and data-handling improvements alongside performance and mapping refinements. Michael combines systems-level security thinking with hands-on development across front-end and back-end domains, and is comfortable operating at the intersection of product UX and low-level platform protection. Notably, his career shows a pattern of moving between applied research and production engineering, giving him a pragmatic approach to complex security problems.
17 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
German, English
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Github Skills (25)
debug10
c-language10
qt10
user-interface10
graphical-user-interface10
netframework10
human-interface10
dotnet-core10
cprogramming-language10
csharp10
3d-mapping9
ui-design9
geocoding9
qml9
mapkit8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
EDDiscovery/EDDiscovery
Jan 2016 - Dec 2017
Captains log and 3d star map for Elite Dangerous
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 31 PRs, 74 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Michael contributed significantly to the user interface by adding new options like "Keep on Top" and "Fast Travel Mode", integrating them into the application's settings and menu. They also implemented performance enhancements by directly referencing controls, and resolved a bug related to the "Distance to Next System" field to improve overall usability. Moreover, the user made various changes to the image handler and trilateration features by adding and editing associated code, suggesting a broad involvement across different aspects of the application. The user also fixed minor whitespace issues.
elite-journalvoice-recognitiontilesetcaptain-logdm
subsurface/subsurface
Aug 2020 - Aug 2022
This is the official upstream of the Subsurface divelog program
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 6 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the Subsurface divelog program by implementing new features and fixing bugs, with a focus on enhancing the user interface and addressing issues related to data handling. The user added functionality to edit gas changes within the profile widget, improving user experience. Furthermore, the user refactored and fixed issues related to reverse geo-coding, enhancing the dive site information. Finally, they improved the user experience with map short names and added a preference setting for it.
pythonsubsurfaceupstream
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