Vincent Wiemann
Consultant at DEROWE
Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
Summary
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RockstarVincent Wiemann is a consultant and embedded systems engineer based in Hanover, Germany, with 11 years of experience building firmware and device support for networked hardware. He contributes to major OpenWrt ecosystems—helping extend hardware compatibility, add device trees, and craft image generation scripts for routers and IoT devices, including work on the widely used openwrt and ImmortalWrt projects. Vincent’s practical focus spans boot/recovery mechanisms, MIPS/ath79 platform nuances, and build-system integration, often surfacing in documentation and tooling improvements. He combines a journalist’s clarity with hands-on embedded development, making complex low-level details accessible to users and maintainers. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions to unusual device quirks, such as enabling TFTP workflows and tailoring images for region-specific variants. Always looking for impactful projects, he seeks collaborators who care about resilient, open networking infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (27)
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linux-kernel10
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openwrt10
device-tree10
image-generation10
u-boot10
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cprogramming-language10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
openwrt/openwrt
Nov 2016 - Oct 2022
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:83 reviews, 10 PRs, 527 comments in 6 years
Contributions summary:Vincent primarily contributes to the OpenWrt project by adding support for new hardware platforms. Their work includes adding device definitions, DTS files, and image generation scripts for various routers and devices, demonstrating expertise in embedded system configuration. They also modify build systems and integrate necessary firmware and packages for the supported devices, focusing on network devices and their unique boot/recovery mechanisms. The contributions are focused on extending OpenWrt's compatibility with diverse hardware, especially relating to the ath79 target architecture.
mergedopenwrtinspull-requestsstaging
freifunk-gluon/gluon
Feb 2018 - Dec 2020
a modular framework for creating OpenWrt-based firmwares for wireless mesh nodes
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:44 reviews, 10 commits, 24 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Vincent contributed to the OpenWrt-based firmware framework by adding support for new hardware, specifically the Alfa AP121F travel router. They provided the necessary configuration and instructions for flashing the device. Furthermore, the user made several documentation updates, including an increased disk space recommendation for builds, added a command for setting the private WLAN MAC address, and a FAQ entry regarding supported hardware. These contributions indicate a focus on device support and documentation within the framework.
modular-frameworkluameshnodesfreifunk
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