Andreas Pfister

Senior Software Architect

Working as a Senior Software Architect at the Production Technology department, I am responsible for the technical digitalization of the production machinery in the plants worldwide. Therefore I develop the architecture of a distributed system from the machine to new cloud services hosted in the Schaeffler Digital Platform.

Software Engineer - Production Development

As a Software Engineer I worked on the new Digital Strategy of the Production Technology department. I researched new methodologies and tools to digitalize the production machinery. Besides my researches I supported my colleagues to write nice readable and reusable code. I introduced Agile Methodologies like Software Kanban or Planing Poker and development workflows based on GitLab, Azure DevOps and Docker.

Software Engineer

Sparkasse Bamberg is a mid-size bank based in Bamberg. I worked here as a Junior and Senior Software Engineer. Started as a team member in multiple projects, I was project lead for organization-wide projects after some years. I also took resposibility of the security infrastructure.

University of Applied Science - Bad Honnef

Final Grade (German): 1.6

Project "TIOS NX" @ Private Project

My current researches are about the idea of an operating system that is completely containerized from the ground up. The use cases are equally for low-resource and high-resource IIot devices. The goal is to have the same operating system on nearly all IoT devices. This would give us some important advantages:

• Common maintainability for all devices in the field.
• Complete modular system based on containers
• Full control over memory footprint
• Secure updates based on container mechanisms

Project "TIOS" @ Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co AG

I was part of a bigger project with the goal to develop an All-In-One Software and Hardware Solution for process control of production machinery and edge capabilities. I was responsible for the conception and the development of the operating system to run the whole package. The final product is completely remote manageable, has its own remote firmware update mechanism and all additional user applications, that are pushed to the system, run separated in Linux container. It is build with Yocto to integrate into CI/CD pipelines flawlessly.

Project "TINI" @ Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co AG

Related to Project "TIOS", see above, there were the needs for the typical edge device capabilities like connectivity or data preprocessing. From the idea to the architecture over the software design and finally the development and integration, everything laid in my hands. The created platform is a resource-efficient, Go-based streaming platform for building event-driven apps. The basic functionalities are comparable to NodeRed but with a more efficient and fast programming language. Thanks to Golang.

Project "Secure Network" @ Sparkasse Bamberg

The finance sector is a security relevant environment. As one of my most critical project while working at Sparkasse Bamberg, I designed and developed a management solution that is able to scan the network traffic in realtime for new connected devices. It is able to execute some actions if a new device is detected, like blocking the device, reporting it to the security team or switching it to a demilitarizied zone of the network. The solution is based on the standards of the BSI.

Website "KFZ-Technik Pfister" @ Private Project

I am not that excited front-end developer but for my brother I created a website for his own company, KFZ-Technik Pfister. He is a technician so had to do everything from design, development and hosting :-)
Finally, I think is it not the worst website in the web and the short excursion into front-end development was successful.