Summary
Tim Hilt is an embedded software developer with 8 years of experience, currently building real-time systems at Festo and previously leading automotive software projects as Technical Lead at Inno-Tec. He combines embedded architecture skills with full-stack and infrastructure experience—Node.js/TypeScript frontends, Go and Spring Boot backends, Kubernetes, Kafka and MongoDB—bridging low-level firmware needs and cloud-native services. As a self-employed maker he publishes practical developer tools and plugins (notably a Go CLI for time tracking and an Obsidian rollover-todo plugin) and experiments with KDE/Qt graphics, showing a taste for polishing developer UX and desktop effects. Based in Filderstadt, Germany, he brings a pragmatic engineering mindset shaped by applied research in computer vision and hands-on project leadership.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Ingenieurpädagogik für Informations- und Elektrotechnik, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Ingenieurpädagogik für Informations- und Elektrotechnik at Hochschule Esslingen - University of Applied Sciences
German, English, French