Tim Mitsch
Engineering at LTSoft GmbH
Kirchheim unter Teck, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Mitsch is an experienced engineer with seven years in software and hardware development, currently working across pragmatic industries GmbH and LTSoft GmbH from his base in Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany. He brings practical expertise in industrial IoT and protocol-level backend work, contributing to the well-known Apache PLC4X project by improving Modbus and S7 protocol implementations and fixing tricky array and string handling issues. His background spans sensor and lab systems, analytics, and Li-ion battery ageing research from a PhD-focused role at Deutsche ACCUmotive, giving him a strong mix of applied research and product engineering. Trained as a Dipl.-Ing. in Electrical Engineering from RWTH Aachen, he combines low-level protocol craftsmanship with hands-on hardware experience. Colleagues describe him as a detail-oriented problem solver who bridges device-level constraints and robust backend systems.
7 years of coding experience
Dipl. Ing, Elektrotechnik und Elektronik, 2,4, Dipl. Ing, Elektrotechnik und Elektronik, 2,4 at Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
Github Skills (6)
javas10
iot10
industrial10
java10
modbus10
testing9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/plc4x
Oct 2018 - Aug 2019
PLC4X The Industrial IoT adapter
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 11 PRs, 5 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to the Modbus and S7 protocol implementations within the PLC4X project. Their work involved introducing a `DefaultModbusByteArrayFieldItem` for handling byte arrays, adding tests, and fixing array and string acquirement issues in the S7 protocol. Furthermore, they modified the `DefaultPlcReadResponse` class and made changes to the S7 protocol related to data handling, including the `S7Protocol`, `TransportSize`, and `DataTransportSize` classes, along with updates to the `DefaultS7MessageProcessor`.
pythonadapterfirmatamodbusindustrial-iot
timbo2k/openvpn-install
Feb 2020 - Dec 2024
Set up your own OpenVPN server on Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS or Arch Linux.
Contributions:8 PRs, 15 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 10 months
nginxarchlinuxon-servervpndocker
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