Philipp Schuster
Senior Software Engineer at Cyberus Technology
Radeberg, Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolPhilipp Schuster is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building low-level systems, virtualization, and developer tooling, currently leading Cloud Hypervisor work and upstream maintenance at Cyberus Technology. He specializes in x86 virtualization, Rust-based VMMs, Linux/KVM integration, and reproducible build/test systems, and has a strong track record of upstream contributions to projects like rust-osdev/uefi-rs and NixOS. Philipp began coding at 14, transitioned from student roles into professional systems engineering, and authored a Rust runtime for a microhypervisor as part of his Diplom thesis. Active in the open-source and conference circuit, he organizes meetups and drives developer productivity through better tooling, documentation, and workflows. Based in Radeberg, Germany, he blends deep technical expertise with developer relations and community leadership, and outside work pursues travel and live music.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom Informatik, Diplom Informatik at Technische Universität Dresden
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Github Skills (17)
uefi10
os-development10
spring-boot10
logging10
rust10
data-structure9
osdev9
spring-mvc9
data-structures9
docx4j6
syntax6
jpa6
angular6
junit6
spring-boot-actuator6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
rust-osdev/uefi-rs
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Rusty wrapper for the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). This crate makes it easy to develop Rust software that leverages safe, convenient, and performant abstractions for UEFI functionality.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer (UEFI/OS Development)
Full-stack Developer (UEFI/OS Development)Contributions:3 releases, 721 reviews, 94 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Philipp primarily focused on enhancing the `uefi-rs` crate, a Rust wrapper for the UEFI firmware interface. Their contributions included implementing a better logger with file and line number inclusion, as well as improving the `fmt::Debug` and `fmt::Display` implementations for core UEFI data structures like `Time` and `SystemTable`. They also added convenience constructors and improved existing data structures, adding string comparisons and creating new functionality to access internal data structures.
rustuefirust-wrapperosdev
phip1611/beat-detector
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
Audio beat detection library that supports different audio input devices as source. You can pass a callback for each found beat to the library.
Contributions:1 release, 33 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 10 months
beat-detectionrust-lang
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