Sven Roederer
Operational Specialist (OT)
Berlin Metropolitan Area Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSven Roederer is an Operational Specialist and hands-on embedded/IoT engineer with 12+ years of experience repairing and restoring complex electronic systems down to component level. Based in Berlin, he blends field service rigor with software and DevOps skills—self-taught Linux administrator, founder of a small IT-solutions shop, and former IT manager and team lead for inline spectroscopy. Sven has contributed to major open-source router projects like OpenWrt/LuCI and device support trees, adding hardware support, build-system fixes and UI improvements that aid real-world networking devices. He has led product development for rugged UHF‑RFID animal-tracking pilots, demonstrating an ability to take solutions from mechanical and electrical design through to data interfaces and process control. Comfortable in both workshop and codebase, he specializes in diagnosing elusive failures and implementing pragmatic fixes for production environments. Colleagues rely on him for analytical problem-solving and for turning field-driven insights into maintainable engineering results.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Facharbeiter, Facharbeiter at IT-SystemElektronikerWerner-von-Siemens-Schule Berlin
German, English, Russian
Github Skills (46)
network-configuration10
c-language10
system-configuration10
ip10
ram10
bash10
build-system10
linux-kernel10
makefile10
networking10
webui10
lua10
openwrt10
device-tree10
dts10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
openwrt/openwrt
Dec 2015 - May 2023
This repository is a mirror of https://git.openwrt.org/openwrt/openwrt.git It is for reference only and is not active for check-ins. We will continue to accept Pull Requests here. They will be merged via staging trees then into openwrt.git.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:23 PRs, 104 comments in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Sven primarily contributes to the OpenWRT project, focusing on device support and configuration. Their work includes adding support for new hardware like the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X-SFP and the TP-Link WR842N v3. They modify device tree files (DTS) for specific router models, including the Ubiquiti Nanostation Loco M (XM), and address naming conventions. Additionally, the user makes build system improvements and removes bashisms in multiple files.
mergedopenwrtinspull-requestsstaging
apache/thrift
Feb 2023 - Aug 2024
Apache Thrift
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 8 PRs, 26 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Sven contributed to the Apache Thrift project by addressing build and testing issues within the CI/CD pipeline, specifically related to the Adobe Flex SDK download location. They also added test cases, particularly for netstd client functionality, which involved modifying .NET project files and generating Thrift code. Additionally, the user made modifications to the C++ code, including adding a test case for handling i8 types in the printTo() function.
actionscriptapache-thriftnetwork-clientdartapache
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