Steffen Lindner
Research Scientist at Selbstständig
Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolSteffen Lindner is a research scientist and software engineer with 11 years of experience focused on P4, SDN, high-performance networking, Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) and resilient systems. He combines academic rigor—culminating in a Dr. rer. nat. in Computer Science from the University of Tübingen—with applied research roles at the university and industry R&D at ABB Corporate Research. As a long-term independent software developer since 2016, he bridges prototype research and production-ready networking solutions, often working at the intersection of programmable data planes and real-time networking guarantees. Known for making TSN and P4 concepts practical, he brings both low-level packet-plane expertise and system-level resilience thinking to industrial networking challenges. Based in Mannheim, Germany, he pairs deep protocol knowledge with an educator’s background, which helps translate complex research into usable engineering outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
Dr. rer. nat. Informatik, Dr. rer. nat. Informatik at University of Tübingen
German, English, Latin
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Github Skills (25)
structures10
notebook7
der7
specification7
starlark7
ruamel-yaml6
pip6
data-structures6
api6
p4lang5
plane5
algorithms5
driver4
bazel-rules4
bazel4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
uni-tue-kn/P4TG
Dec 2022 - Nov 2024
This repository contains the source code for P4TG, a 1 Tb/s traffic generator for Ethernet/IP networks
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 14 PRs in 1 year 11 months
NE4Y/Informatik-II-Skript-Grust-SS15
Apr 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:43 commits, 1 PR, 35 pushes in 2 months
skriptvorlesungderinformatikwird
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