Michael Zillgith
CEO Founder at Gridcore Labs Lda
Portugal
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Top SchoolMichael Zillgith is the founder and CEO of MZ Automation with 11 years of experience building and integrating industrial machine-to-machine communication stacks for energy and utility systems. He leads engineering teams and consultancy engagements from Portugal, specializing in IEC 61850 and IEC 60870-5 families as well as Modbus, DNP3, OPC and wireless M-Bus, and has supported device certification and substation integrations. Michael is the principal maintainer of widely used open-source implementations of IEC 61850 and IEC 60870-5, contributing deep backend work such as a .NET API with async read/write, file transfer, and functional naming support. His background at Fraunhofer ISE grounds him in smart grid, embedded systems, and energy-management software, bridging research and product engineering. Known for pragmatic protocol-level problem solving, he combines hands-on C/C#/Go development with strategic leadership across startups and lab-driven R&D.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree, Information Technology, Engineer’s Degree, Information Technology at University of Applied Sciences of Offenburg
English, German, Portuguese
Github Skills (15)
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dotnet-core10
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file-handling9
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mz-automation/libiec61850
May 2016 - Jan 2023
Official repository for libIEC61850, the open-source library for the IEC 61850 protocols
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 1233 commits, 66 PRs in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the development of the .NET API for the libIEC61850 library. Their work included adding features such as asynchronous read/write methods, data set directory access, and methods to interact with control blocks. They were also responsible for implementing file transfer capabilities and added support for functional naming in the .NET wrapper. Furthermore, the user extended the MmsValue class and made improvements to server side code handling and GoCB service tracking.
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mz-automation/lib60870
Mar 2016 - Jan 2023
Official repository for lib60870 an implementation of the IEC 60870-5-101/104 protocol
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 470 commits, 13 PRs in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the implementation of various information objects within the IEC 60870-5 protocol library, including support for single point, double point, step position, and bitstring information objects. They added functions for handling and creating these objects, expanding the library's capability to parse and encode different data types. Furthermore, the user refactored and fixed bugs related to existing code, enhancing the reliability and stability of the library.
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