Robert Von Burg
Chief Technology Officer at Strolch.li
Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Von Burg is a hands-on technology leader and CTO with 14 years of experience building software for healthcare logistics, IoT, and embedded systems from his base in Solothurn, Switzerland. He leads development of eSyNet, an intelligent medication distribution platform, while maintaining and evolving Strolch, his Java application framework, and contributing to Pi4J to ensure Raspberry Pi I/O works across aarch64 hardware. His background in mechanical engineering and CAD gives him a practical systems mindset that informs robust integration between hardware, firmware and enterprise software. As a university source-code coach he mentors students on Pi4J usage, reflecting a passion for knowledge transfer and open-source collaboration. Notably, his contributions to porting native libraries for Pi4J show a specialty in cross-platform native integration that many software architects overlook.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
hftm Höhere Fachschule Technik Mittelland
Github Skills (10)
javas10
arm10
gpio10
embedded10
raspberry-pi10
sys10
java10
build-automation9
c178
c118
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
Pi4J/pi4j-v1
Jul 2019 - Jan 2021
Java I/O library for Raspberry Pi (GPIO, I2C, SPI, UART)
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 7 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily focused on enhancing the `pi4j-v1` library, a Java I/O library for the Raspberry Pi. They extended the build process to support the aarch64 architecture. Furthermore, they made changes to the build scripts for the native code, and modified the core Java files to load native libraries, particularly related to the wiringPi library. These changes suggest a focus on ensuring the library functions correctly on different hardware platforms.
raspberry-pigpioi2craspberryraspberry-pi-gpio
strolch-li/strolch-wc-paging
Aug 2019 - Feb 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 3 branches, 9 tags in 4 years 7 months
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