Peter Schuster
Project Lead For IAM Systems at Pilz
Ostfildern, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolPeter Schuster is a systems architect and project lead with 14 years of experience building secure identification and access management solutions at Pilz, where he shapes products like PITreader and Key in Pocket. Trained as an electrical and computer engineer (TU Darmstadt, B.Sc./M.Sc.), he blends hardware design, firmware, and backend software expertise to take industrial automation prototypes to market-compliant, reliable products. He has deep hands-on experience resolving EMI/power issues, designing networked devices, and defining security-focused requirements and architectures. An active contributor to open source OPC UA (open62541), he improves robustness through targeted bug fixes and test cases for client/compiler components. Based in Ostfildern, Germany, he pairs pragmatic engineering with formal rigor, often surfacing subtle interoperability and serialization issues before release. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex system constraints into maintainable, testable implementations.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at TU Darmstadt
German, English
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Github Skills (17)
debug10
open6254110
clientside10
testing10
c-programming10
c1110
c1710
webclient10
opc-ua10
server9
pullrequest6
php6
globalization6
github6
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
open62541/open62541
Jul 2021 - Aug 2021
Open source implementation of OPC UA (OPC Unified Architecture) aka IEC 62541 licensed under Mozilla Public License v2.0
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:2 commits, 6 PRs, 9 comments in 23 days
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on bug fixes and testing within the OPC UA implementation. They addressed issues related to string handling, data serialization, and client connection management. Furthermore, the user implemented a new test case to cover a specific failure scenario related to server errors, thereby contributing to improved software reliability and testing coverage. These changes were primarily within client and compiler components.
iectsnlicensediec-62541opcua
bitfocus/companion-module-panasonic-projector
Oct 2019 - Sep 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 18 commits, 5 PRs in 3 years
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