Summary
Tom Hammerbacher is a manager and team lead at Phoenix Contact with 8 years of experience building digital factory solutions that improve sustainability, productivity, and industrial security. He leads an international engineering group that translates sales and business unit needs into scalable IIoT, automation, and machine learning projects, including lighthouse deployments worldwide. Technically fluent from embedded and systems engineering through data-driven architectures, he has progressed from dual-study B.Sc. and M.Sc. programs into solutions engineering and now group management. Tom combines hands-on system design with market-facing responsibilities, aligning technology roadmaps to customer outcomes across global subsidiaries. Based in Bad Pyrmont, he is known for coaching engineers to deliver pragmatic, secure factory automation platforms that balance innovation with operational reliability. An attentive bridge between sales, product and engineering, he frequently pilots proofs-of-concept that accelerate wider adoption.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Information Technology, 1.3, Master of Science - MS, Information Technology, 1.3 at Technische Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe
English, German