Gerhard Forster

Former Bosch Building Technologies (BT), cameras and optical security systems -- Maintain and improve existing Bamboo CI/CD, create new pipelines (in Bamboo and in Jenkins), migrate pipelines from Bamboo to Jenkins, maintain and adpat Ansible playbooks (on GitHub). Use of Docker and Grafana / Prometheus for visualization and monitoring. Support of local Atlassian / other tools (e.g. Jira, SVN) and co-admin local server. Maintain embedded Linux build system, participate in Yocto development for new firmware.

Senior System Software Engineer, for Automotive -- agile Scrum / SAFe in 2 customer projects (car OEM / EV + Wallbox / EV charging). PoCs underneath AUTOSAR, customized embedded Linux, first using Buildroot then Yocto. Requirements Engineering (codeBeamer), work with Jenkins pipelines / release building. Insights into OCPP and EEBus. Use of systemd, D-Bus + Python / asyncio. "HW in the loop" test concept + use of pytest. SW / module integration and development in modern C/C++, one in Rust, use of Gstreamer.

IT Analysis & Atlassian tool Support Engineer with strong networking activities (topology, Proxy / firewall, security, SSL, etc.), AD & LDAP, database (PSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle) support / SQL queries, troubleshooting for Git, SVN and further VCS and build tools such as Ant, Maven, Gradle. Acting on Java code analysis, Bamboo Java & YAML Specs and use of Java / system analysis tools. Using and supporting Cloud / AWS, VMs and Docker. Attempt to stimulate IoT activities for e-Core's engineering.

Freelancer for IoT (Internet of Things) acting on system concept / embedded design as well as SW development and HW integration. Implementation of Bluetooth & BLE control, use of iBeacon and Eddystone (URL, UID), network access (LAN / WAN, with Gateways) via WiFi, Ethernet or GPRS. 2 projects in the area of Proximity Marketing (written in C) and a third one in Medical Care prototyping a Cloud-based person-tracking system (in Python) using WebSocket and RESTful API.

System / Software Engineer for RF and Power Driver / GSM Layer 1, System Architect Power Driver, various times: technical (Feature) Lead with teams, e.g. for a customer project, “Tool Responsible” for Power co-ordinating a team of engineers in Germany and India, Power Optimisation for mobiles, Cross-Functional (XFT) Power Lead (also covering LTE and all RATs), design and system engineering for "TimeServices" incl. customer involvement

M2M communication and integration of measurement systems in (the steel industry’s) automation environment. This involved: specification, design and implementation/test of a large number of serial protocols, e.g. RS-422 and RS485/Profibus. Also TCP/IP (and UDP) socket programming, creation/work on Linux device drivers plus familiarized thoroughly with OS9 for optical metering systems as well as with UNIX and especially Linux & RTLinux for the newer (incl. the X-ray) measurement systems.

GSM/GPRS module integration (under Windows CE) and Bluetooth (BlueZ stack) system integration for Linux, both with interface to speech engine (voice recognition, grammar for "voice parsing" and key-word extraction, TTS)

Technical Key Account for “Wireless” and „Secure ICs“, coordination of technical Asia / Pacific support, various chipcard, biometrics and crypto R&D activities

Technical pre- and post-sales support for DSP systems, OEM customer care, technical presenter

Technical post-sales for processors / DSPs

Communications engineering (incl. wireless / telecom) and data processing, thesis: Simulation of CDMA components on a DSP system.