Waldemar Faist is a Berlin-based software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience, currently working as a student employee at SBE network solutions GmbH. He focuses on backend systems and low-level protocol work, evidenced by his contributions to the wmbusmeters open-source project where he improved meter support, added RSSI handling, corrected offsets, and introduced additional date fields and tests for real-world meters. Comfortable working close to hardware and with embedded protocols, he blends practical engineering with attention to data quality and observability. Colleagues would describe him as pragmatic and persistent — if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.
Read the wired or wireless mbus protocol to acquire utility meter readings.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Waldemar primarily contributed to the `wmbusmeters` project by implementing and improving support for various utility meters. They added RSSI support for the CUL device and made corrections to the offsets for Techem HCA meters. The user also added date fields for both the MKRadio3 and TSD2 meters, enhancing the data available for those devices. Additionally, they added tests for a Techem HCA meter.
Contributions:2 reviews, 1699 PRs, 2446 pushes in 3 years 2 months
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Waldemar Faist - Student Employee at SBE network solutions GmbH