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DIPL.-ING.ManuelSchmitzberger

Computer scientist and founder with more than 15 years in IT: from electronics, microcontrollers and industrial control systems through mobile and embedded development to distributed server systems, private data centres and digital forensics.

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01 // PROFILE

From the control cabinet
to the cloud.

Graduate engineer (Dipl.-Ing.) in information technology with more than 15 years of professional experience: from hardware and industrial control systems through embedded and mobile development to distributed server systems and data-centre operations.

Rooted in hardware: trained in electrical engineering at HTL Braunau, firmware for microcontrollers (nRF52840, ESP32, STM32), custom circuit boards, sensor and motor control, PLC programming – and a trade licence in electrical engineering.

Developer of the biometric forensics SDK BioCapture (contactless fingerprint capture with a smartphone, integrated at the Austrian police with the AIT, IBM and the Ministry of the Interior). Technical expert opinions in patent disputes, external IT consulting with IT restructuring and team building; trade licences for IT services and electrical engineering.

Currently

  • since 2023
    Co-founder, managing director since 2023iSM Solutions GmbHIT services company with its own data centre
  • since 2019
    Self-employed IT consultantms-sw – SenseWareBridging hardware and software
  • since 2014
    Computer scientistAuthentic Vision GmbHSmartphone authentication of security labels

IT systems

Hyper-converged data centres with Proxmox, Ceph and ZFS, Kubernetes, network design, GitOps.

Software engineering

C++ image processing, Go back ends, mobile SDKs, web applications and LLM-based systems.

Hardware & embedded

Microcontroller firmware (nRF52840, ESP32, STM32), custom PCBs, sensors, CAN, I²C, RS-422, PLCs and electrical engineering.

IT security

Anti-counterfeiting, identity and access management, cryptography, segmentation, ISO 27001.

Digital forensics

Biometric capture, on-device content detection, PLC data recovery, source code and claim feature analysis.

02 // PROJECTS

Selected projects.

20 of 25 documented projects, grouped by field. Click a card for details.

Security & forensics 4

Biometrics, on-device content detection, expert opinions and PLC data recovery.

// Forensics · biometrics2019 – present

BioCapture Mobile

T3K Forensics GmbH · with the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology

SDK for contactless fingerprint capture with a smartphone camera, developed with the AIT and integrated at the Austrian police together with IBM and the Ministry of the Interior. Design, architecture and lead development – from neural finger detection to AFIS matching.

5platforms & plugins
NISTWSQ-compliant output
PADspoof detection
biocapture.ms-sw.at
C++KotlinSwiftTensorFlow LiteOpenCVOpenAFIS
  • Core SDK in C++ (CMake, Conan) with SDKs for Android and iOS plus plugins for Cordova, Xamarin and Flutter.
  • Finger detection with a neural network (SSD MobileNet v2, TensorFlow Lite).
  • Presentation attack detection: recognising fake fingers with EfficientNet models and a dedicated test server.
  • Image quality: device-specific camera calibration, fingerprint enhancement and capture quality scoring.
  • Standards: NIST-format output with WSQ compression, NIST converter plugin.
  • Matching via a service based on OpenAFIS (FastAPI, PostgreSQL, gRPC).
  • Police integration: working with IBM and the Austrian Ministry of the Interior (BMI) to integrate BioCapture Mobile into the police's mobile systems.
  • Protection: licensing, symbol hiding in the iOS SDK, external security review by SBA Research.
// Forensics · computer vision2022

STM SDK

T3K Forensics GmbH · sole developer

On-device detection of investigation-relevant image content – such as weapons, extremist symbols and identity documents – without any data leaving the smartphone.

C++TensorFlow LiteOpenCVKotlin / JNISwift
  • Detection model (SSD MobileNet v2, TensorFlow Lite) with 35 classes, plus a second, separate model; trained models converted to TFLite (float and quantised) and embedded in the library.
  • C++ core: preprocessing, segmentation, extraction and flow control with an event-based interface; built with CMake and Conan for host, Android and iOS, with unit tests and benchmarks.
  • Android SDK in Kotlin/Java with JNI, demo app, distribution via fastlane and App Center; iOS SDK in Swift with an Objective-C bridge.
  • Licensing: online and offline licences with JWT tokens and a custom token generator.
  • Complete developer documentation for both platforms.
// Expert opinion2026

Technical opinion in a patent dispute

Software vendor (confidential)

Patent infringement proceedings before the Unified Patent Court: claim-by-claim feature analysis against the source code and architecture of a biometrics product.

Feature analysisSource code reviewDE / EN
  • Breaking the patent claims down into individual features.
  • Feature comparison for each software layer (core, Android SDK, iOS SDK) based on source code and architecture.
  • Reasoned technical finding per feature, clearly separated from the legal assessment; versions in German and English.
// Data recovery2026

PLC replacement

Food-processing business

A meat cutter's Mitsubishi MELSEC controller was replaced: program and data read out without vendor software and transferred to the new controller.

MELSEC FXRS-422Reverse engineering
  • Read-out of the ladder program and device state over the serial programming port (RS-422).
  • Custom reader with no write access to the controller.
  • Separate restore tool with a documented distinction between verified and unverified parts.

Infrastructure & cloud 4

Data centres, Kubernetes platforms and networks – planned, built and operated.

// Data centre2024 – present

Private cloud in Upper Austria

iSM Solutions · partner Kabel Braunau

Highly available, fully documented platform for around 15 customer tenants: Proxmox with Ceph, Kubernetes on Talos Linux, everything via GitOps.

ProxmoxCephTalosCiliumFlux CD
  • Virtualisation: Proxmox VE cluster with ZFS and Ceph, Proxmox Backup Server, automatic snapshots.
  • Kubernetes: Talos Linux, Cilium (kube-proxy replacement, L2 load balancing), Ceph CSI, Traefik, cert-manager, Sealed Secrets, Velero.
  • GitOps with Flux CD and Renovate: customer repositories build images, Flux rolls them out automatically.
  • Puppet with custom modules for nftables firewall, keepalived/conntrackd, WireGuard and monitoring.
  • Mail: hosted groupware as an Exchange alternative, plus network policies, SMTP relay and monitoring.
  • The website you are reading runs on it, too.
// HCI · Kubernetes2022 – present

Corporate IT for a software company

iMes Solutions · external IT consulting

Technical vision and IT restructuring: built up the IT and DevOps team (more than five people), rebuilt the infrastructure in preparation for ISO 27001 and ran penetration tests myself.

ProxmoxActive DirectoryHarborGKEk3s
  • Consulting and organisation: technical vision, IT restructuring, realigned development process, IT and DevOps team of more than five people.
  • ISO 27001: certification preparation, infrastructure rebuilt to the standard's requirements; penetration tests carried out myself and findings implemented.
  • Network redesign: re-segmentation into VLANs with migration of the Active Directory domain and DNS; WireGuard for all staff.
  • Kubernetes platform: Flux CD, Harbor, redundant GitLab runners, BuildKit, Renovate, hierarchical namespaces.
  • Customer provisioning for Azure, Google Cloud (private GKE cluster with VPN to the plant) and on-premises (k3s), with Velero and LGTM monitoring.
  • Operations: work instructions, restore tests, IDPS concept, permissions as code.
// High availabilitysince c. 2017

Data centres Salzburg & Hallein

Authentic Vision GmbH

A globally available scan service across several sites: firewall cluster, Proxmox, GitOps scan nodes and a set of in-house tools written in Go.

keepalivedAnsiblePuppetGoKafka
  • Sites: office and lab, data centres in Salzburg-Maxglan and Hallein.
  • Network: three-node firewall cluster, Dell OS10 switches; Proxmox Backup Server with a 12 TiB scan data set.
  • Scan nodes via Flux: scan server, image processing, Kafka buffer, WireGuard tunnel to headquarters.
  • In-house tools: DNS zone sync, ingress controller with LDAP SSO, authoritative DNS derived from cluster state, secrets from 1Password.
  • Internal certificate authority, concept for geo-redundancy and replication.
// HCI for industry2023 – present

Hyper-converged infrastructure

LARsys-Automation GmbH · Altenbuchner

Both customers built to the same documented standard: Proxmox cluster with Ceph, separate networks, firewall VMs, backup and emergency plans.

ProxmoxCephWireGuardMicrosoft 365
  • Virtualisation: Proxmox VE cluster with Ceph and Corosync, separate networks for cluster, storage and management.
  • Backup with Proxmox Backup Server including scripts for backup, restore and updates.
  • Network: external and internal firewall VMs, VLANs, switch configuration, WireGuard VPN.
  • Documentation: cabling, VLANs, architecture decisions, post-mortems and emergency plans.
  • Migration of identity and access management to Microsoft 365 (LARsys, 2023).

Software & platforms 4

From C++ image-processing engines to web shops and business applications.

// Platform2014 – present

Smartphone authentication

Authentic Vision GmbH, Salzburg

Counterfeit-proof holographic labels that consumers verify with their phone camera. Software architecture, mobile SDKs, C++ engine and Go back ends.

C++GoWebAssemblyKafkagRPC
  • Image-processing engine (C++) that decides on authenticity from the video stream; runs on Android, iOS, in the browser (WebAssembly) and in Python.
  • Scan server (Go): WebSocket sessions, brokering between device and server engine via Cap'n Proto RPC.
  • Data provisioning and label production (Go, gRPC): label lookup, evidence archive, print jobs.
  • Mobile SDKs: initially head of mobile development; Android (Kotlin, JNI, Compose) and iOS (Swift, Objective-C++, SwiftUI).
  • Data processing: Kafka pipelines between scan nodes and headquarters.
  • Technical support of patent applications in optical authentication.
// Cloud shop2025 – present

SecITX

secitx.cloud · secitx.com

Cloud servers, managed Kubernetes, groupware replacing Microsoft 365, firewall/VPN and NIS2 support as self-service – hosted in an Austrian data centre.

Next.jsReactPostgreSQLPrismaMCP
  • Static shop generated from one central price catalogue: the generator aborts on missing prices, so contradictory prices cannot happen.
  • Campaign for replacing Microsoft 365 and Exchange.
  • Shop and portal application (MVP): Next.js 15, React 19, PostgreSQL with Prisma, B2B model, cart and customer portal.
  • Mail connector: an MCP server that makes a mailbox available to AI assistants via IMAP/SMTP.
  • Brand site secitx.com migrated from WordPress into our own cluster.
// Industrial software2022 – present

Shiftguru, Plant Historian & PLSDoc

iMes Solutions

Digital shift log for industrial plants, a time-series stack for process data and a strictly layered web documentation tool.

ReactFlaskInfluxDBRabbitMQKeycloak
  • Shiftguru: events, tasks, shift handovers, forms replacing paper checklists; React client, Python microservices, MSSQL, RabbitMQ, Keycloak; a test environment per feature branch.
  • Plant Historian: InfluxDB, Prometheus, Grafana, Open Policy Agent; SaaS concept on QuestDB with a data simulator (500 tags at second intervals).
  • PLSDoc web: React 19 and TypeScript with a lint-enforced four-layer architecture and six CI stages.
  • App platform: multi-tenant SaaS control plane in Go and React, one namespace per customer.
// Business apps2024 – present

Inverra, Veridia, TimeTrack & co.

iSM Solutions · for customers

Proven open-source products, adapted to customer processes and run on Kubernetes: inventory, laboratory, time tracking, invoicing, CRM.

DjangoLaravelSymfonyVueReact
  • Inverra (inventory and manufacturing): offline licensing with signed tokens, barcode picking with a handheld scanner.
  • Veridia LIMS: samples, test catalogue, test orders, immutable audit log, certificates of analysis.
  • TimeTrack: absence module with holiday entitlement, PDF export, static code analysis.
  • InvoiceX (invoicing) and Orbit (CRM) on Laravel 12 and Vue, with change log and segmentation.
  • Bilingual static website generators for several companies, delivered via CI and Flux.

AI 2

Sovereign AI platforms and AI in software development.

// AI platform2026 – present

iSM Intelligence

iSM Solutions · intelligence.ism-solutions.com

Sovereign AI platform for corporate knowledge and automation: self-hosted LLMs and secured AI agents, GDPR and NIS2 compliant – the field of application for my research focus, sovereign AI & secure distributed systems.

Self-hosted LLMsAI agentsOpen WebUIGitLabKubernetes
  • Scope: chat with answers from your own documents, research across several sources, scheduled data queries and reports, workflow automation, document processing, connections to email, file storage, quotes and tasks.
  • Operation locally, on-premises or in the iSM cloud in Upper Austria; language models self-hosted or from external providers – for medical practices, municipalities, schools, manufacturing and critical infrastructure.
  • Interface: Open WebUI with user accounts, permissions and chat history.
  • Agent behind an OpenAI-compatible API that works in its own checkout from the internal GitLab and commits its changes.
  • Customer assistants for websites, machine overviews, CRM and inventory management.
  • Hardened CI: a separate runner for projects whose pipeline an AI assistant may change.
  • Automation concept with clear rules on when customer data may be seen by a language model.
// AI in development2024 – present

Internal AI platform & AI code review

iMes Solutions

Chat with company knowledge without sharing data with third parties, plus automatic merge request reviews – which never approve on their own.

RAGOllamaKeycloakGitLab CI
  • AI platform: Open WebUI with retrieval-augmented generation, Ollama for embeddings, single sign-on.
  • Company wiki synchronised into department-specific knowledge bases; an agent that filters public tenders.
  • Requirements catalogue: no data sharing with third-party LLMs, audit log, removal of personal data.
  • AI code review as a CI template: splits large changes, logs cost and tokens, never approves or merges by itself.
  • Internal workshop “AI in software development” (2024).

Embedded & hardware 6

Industrial camera systems, microcontroller firmware, circuit boards, motor control and computer vision.

// Industrial imaging2019 – present

PIE – camera system for label production

Authentic Vision · lead developer

Every holographic label is filmed while it is printed and enrolled: custom camera and lighting rig in printing plants, capture in C++/Qt, orchestration in Go/gRPC, distributed feature extraction on Kubernetes.

C++ / QtGogRPCKubernetesZFS / LUKS
  • Camera rig: own design with two cameras above the label web and custom LED lighting; at least 18 px/mm and at most 1 px motion blur; camera models compared on the extracted features.
  • Capture station: Debian set up with Ansible, own capture application in C++/Qt with live view, camera remote control, storage monitoring and telemetry.
  • Data transport: pairs of 12 TB drives, LUKS-encrypted as ZFS mirrors – one is shipped, the other stays at the printer as a backup.
  • Bakery (Go, gRPC, web UI): customers, label types, print jobs, reels and number ranges as a state machine, running on Kubernetes.
  • Enrollment pipeline: feature extraction with the C++ engine in scalable workers on Docker, Kubernetes or GKE, merged in PostgreSQL, evidence archive in S3.
// Production line2017

Inline label activation

Authentic Vision · customer Melasan

A camera reading station on a running labelling line activates every security label right after it is applied: specification, coordination with the integrator and acceptance.

Siemens IOT2000RT LinuxDataMatrix / QRRESTIcinga
  • Specification with current state, goals and acceptance criteria, agreed with the system integrator.
  • Reading requirements: DataMatrix and QR codes from 6 to 20 mm in any orientation, 100 % read rate at 1.0 m/s belt speed, robust against ambient light and dirt.
  • Control: Siemens IOT2000 with real-time Linux, signal tower and acknowledge button; the labelling line never stops, faulty products are rejected manually.
  • Data transfer to the REST activation API within one minute, buffered and re-sent on network or API outages; monitoring via Nagios/Icinga.
  • On-site commissioning and acceptance, handover of source code and operating manual.
// Smart building2020 – present

Home automation system

Own project

Sensors and actuators on custom PCBs, FreeRTOS firmware and control logic in Node-RED over MQTT – for a three-storey building, from electrical planning to the control cabinet.

ESP32FreeRTOSEagle PCBMQTTNode-RED
  • Electrical planning including conduit and earthing plans and a cable colour standard.
  • Custom PCBs: ESP32 sensor and actuator modules, I²C expanders, level shifters, M-Bus converter.
  • Firmware for the sensor and actuator nodes on FreeRTOS (acquisition, control, networking and MQTT as separate tasks); control logic in Node-RED.
  • Control: two Raspberry Pi 5 running diskless Alpine Linux from RAM, Podman on ZFS, ioBroker, Node-RED.
  • Network with five VLANs and PoE switches; external firewall with WireGuard tunnel and k3s for own services.
// Robotics2024

Unmanned ground vehicle

LARsys-Automation GmbH

Central unit with CAN bus and LTE, field-oriented control of brushless motors on STM32, remote control via VPN and web interface.

STM32SimpleFOCCANNode-RED
  • Central unit: Raspberry Pi with CAN and LTE add-ons, camera, Node-RED, VPN and web interface.
  • Motor control: FOC on STM32G431 with SimpleFOC and PlatformIO, driven via CAN with ramp control.
  • Earlier prototypes: monocular camera navigation and depth estimation with MiDaS.
// Medical devices2021

BLE medical and hygiene devices

Medidoc

Firmware for two devices on custom nRF52840 boards, with firmware updates over Bluetooth and companion apps for Android and iOS.

nRF52840BLEDFUKotlin
  • Firmware with the Nordic SDK and Segger Embedded Studio, DFU bootloader for updates over Bluetooth.
  • Debugging with Segger J-Link, ST-Link/OpenOCD and Black Magic Probe.
  • Companion apps for Android (Kotlin/Java, Nordic BLE library) and iOS.
// Computer vision2026 · prototype

Automatic tennis line judge

Own project

Two cameras in line with the court line: the line becomes a straight line in the image, and “out” or “in” becomes a simple side test – no calibration needed.

Raspberry Pi 5Global shutterPython120 fps
  • Object detection in the luminance image via a background model and connected components.
  • Ball tracking with velocity-based prediction.
  • Bounce detection by comparing fit errors: two lines versus one parabola.
  • Bounce time estimated between two camera frames; voice call-out with tolerance band.
  • Two IMX296 cameras, expected accuracy 10 to 25 mm, 33 automated tests on synthetic images.
03 // CAREER

Career milestones.

Co-founder, Shareholder (50 %) & Managing Director

08/2023 – present
iSM Solutions GmbH, Eggelsberg
IT services company, Braunau district · managing director since 02/2024 (IT and electrical engineering)
  • Built and operates a private data centre with partner Kabel Braunau: Proxmox VE with Ceph/ZFS, Kubernetes on Talos Linux, GitOps with Flux CD, Puppet; around 15 customer tenants from industry, trade and the public sector.
  • SecITX platform and shop (secitx.cloud): cloud servers, managed Kubernetes, groupware replacing Exchange/Microsoft 365, firewall/VPN and NIS2 support.
More details
  • Business applications for customers: inventory and manufacturing (Inverra), laboratory information system (Veridia LIMS), time tracking (TimeTrack), invoicing (InvoiceX), CRM (Orbit).
  • Concept of the SOVIRA Data Platform: sovereign, geo-redundant data platform for machine and process data on own infrastructure in Austria, as a foundation for analytics and AI.
  • iSM Intelligence (intelligence.ism-solutions.com): sovereign AI platform for corporate knowledge and automation with self-hosted LLMs and secured AI agents, GDPR and NIS2 compliant.
  • Hyper-converged infrastructure, network design and Microsoft 365 migration for industrial customers (e.g. LARsys-Automation, Altenbuchner); electrical engineering and automation.

Self-employed IT Consultant

12/2019 – present
ms-sw – Manuel Schmitzberger SenseWare, Gilgenberg / Geretsberg
Sole proprietorship bridging the hardware and software worlds · services in automated data processing and information technology
Forensic SDKs for T3K Forensics GmbH (2019 – present)
  • BioCapture: design and development of an SDK for contactless fingerprint capture with the smartphone camera; developed with the AIT; integrated at the Austrian police together with IBM and the Ministry of the Interior (BMI).
  • C++ core with Android and iOS SDKs plus Cordova, Xamarin and Flutter plugins; neural-network finger detection (TensorFlow Lite) and presentation attack detection (spoof detection).
More details
  • NIST-compliant output with WSQ compression, AFIS matching (OpenAFIS), licensing; external security review by SBA Research.
  • STM SDK (2022): on-device detection of investigation-relevant image content (e.g. weapons, extremist symbols, identity documents) on smartphones without data leaving the device; sole developer of the C++ core and the Android and iOS SDKs.
External IT consulting for iMes Solutions GmbH (2022 – present)
  • Technical vision and IT restructuring: realigned the development process, built up the IT and DevOps team (more than five people).
  • ISO 27001 preparation: rebuilt the IT infrastructure (Kubernetes, network re-segmentation) and carried out penetration tests myself.
  • Industrial software (Shiftguru, Plant Historian, PLSDoc), internal AI platform and AI code review.
Expert opinions
  • Technical opinion as a party-appointed expert in patent infringement proceedings before the Unified Patent Court (2026): claim-by-claim feature analysis against the source code and architecture of a biometrics product.
Further projects
  • Medidoc (2021): BLE medical devices on custom nRF52840 boards: firmware (Nordic SDK) and apps for Android and iOS.
  • LARsys-Automation (2024): unmanned ground vehicle: motor control (FOC) on STM32, CAN bus, Raspberry Pi central unit with LTE.
  • Home automation system (2020 – present): sensors and actuators on custom PCBs (Eagle, ESP32), FreeRTOS firmware, control logic in Node-RED via MQTT; electrical planning.
  • PLC replacement (2026): read out program and data of a Mitsubishi MELSEC controller without vendor software and transferred them to the new controller.

Computer Scientist

08/2014 – present
Authentic Vision GmbH, Salzburg
Joined during the master's programme · smartphone-based authentication of holographic security labels
  • Software architecture of the authentication platform; previously head of mobile development: embeddable SDKs and apps for Android (Kotlin/Java, JNI) and iOS (Swift, Objective-C++).
  • Contributions to the C++ image-processing engine (Android, iOS, WebAssembly) and the Go back-end services (scan server, data provisioning, label production).
More details
  • PIE (since 2019, lead developer and technically responsible): camera system in printing plants and enrollment pipeline for every label: custom camera and lighting rig, capture in C++/Qt, orchestration in Go/gRPC, distributed feature extraction on Kubernetes.
  • Inline activation at Melasan (2017): specification, coordination with the integrator and acceptance of a camera reading station on a production line.
  • Technical support of patent applications and proceedings; security audits of mobile applications with external auditors.
  • IT infrastructure: data centres in Salzburg and Hallein, firewall cluster, Kubernetes/GitOps, Puppet and Ansible, monitoring and on-call duty.

Hardware / Software Engineer

04/2011 – 08/2014
PSG Fertigungs- und Prozessautomations GmbH, Burghausen (DE)
Part-time, alongside the bachelor's programme
  • Programming of PLCs and process control systems (Siemens, B&R), HMI/SCADA systems with Simatic WinCC.
  • Plant simulation with WINMOD; functional safety in process control (SIL); hardware and network planning.
More details
  • Programming of stepper motor modules (C, ARM) and failure analysis of the power stages (bachelor thesis topic).
04 // SKILLS

A well-stocked toolbox.

Programming languages

CC++GoPythonKotlinJavaSwiftObjective-C++TypeScript/JavaScriptPHP

Frameworks

ReactNext.jsVueDjangoFlask/FastAPILaravelSymfonySpring BootJetpack ComposeSwiftUIQt

Infrastructure

Proxmox VE/PBSCephZFSKubernetes (Talos, k3s, GKE, AKS)Docker/PodmanFlux CDGitLab CIAnsiblePuppet

Networking & security

VLANnftableskeepalived/VRRPWireGuardDNSPKIKeycloak/OIDCLDAPActive DirectoryMicrosoft 365ISO 27001

Data & messaging

PostgreSQLMSSQLMariaDBInfluxDBElasticsearchKafkaRabbitMQMQTT

Imaging & AI

OpenCVTensorFlow/TFLiteobject detectionbiometrics (NIST/WSQ, AFIS)LLM systems (RAG, agents)

Hardware & embedded

Microcontrollers (nRF52840, ESP32, STM32)Raspberry PiFreeRTOSNordic SDKPlatformIOBLECANI²CRS-422M-BusMotor control (FOC)PCB design (Eagle)Electrical planningPLC (Siemens, B&R, Mitsubishi)WinCC
05 // EDUCATION

Education & certificates.

09/2014 – 02/2017

Master's programme Information Technology & Systems Management

Salzburg University of Applied Sciences
Degree: Diplom-Ingenieur (Dipl.-Ing., MSc equivalent) · 120 ECTS
Focus: digital signal and industrial image processing, pattern recognition and machine learning, IT security, IT project management
Master's thesis: Optimization of image capturing for fast optical variable device feature extraction using mobile devices
09/2011 – 06/2014

Bachelor's programme Information Technology & Systems Management

Salzburg University of Applied Sciences
Degree: Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSc) · 191 ECTS
Bachelor's thesis: analysis of the stepper motor control of a vending machine (hardware and software), in cooperation with PSG
09/2005 – 06/2010

HTL Braunau, College of Engineering for Electrical Engineering, specialisation Information Technology

Matura and diploma examination (06/2010) · electrical engineering, electronics, microcontrollers, information technology

Training, certificates & licences

  • 2024Trade licence for electrical engineering (excluding alarm systems), registered managing director of iSM Solutions GmbH; exam Electrical Safety Regulations, WIFI Salzburg (distinction)
  • 2020BeXcellent Bootcamp, Neuro Performance Group (54 h, Certificate of Excellence)
  • 2019Trade licence for services in automated data processing and information technology
  • 2014Quality Management Systems, Quality Austria (3 days)
  • 2014Oracle Academy: Database Design and Programming with SQL
  • 2013Explosion protection (ATEX) seminar, Endress+Hauser
  • 2013SIL in Practice (functional safety), TÜV SÜD, HIMA, Endress+Hauser et al., Linz
  • 2012Cisco Networking Academy: CCNA Exploration – Network Fundamentals

Award

Upper Austrian Chamber of Commerce, UBIT trade group (2020): recognised as an “innovative force and part of the future of Upper Austria as a business location”

Publication

Hofmann, P., …, Schmitzberger, M. et al. (2016): Agent Based Image Analysis (ABIA) – Preliminary Research Results from an Implemented Framework. University of Salzburg (Z_GIS) and Salzburg University of Applied Sciences.

Languages, research & interests

German native · English fluent
Research focus: Sovereign AI & Secure Distributed Systems
Interests: theoretical computer science, electronics, cosmology, sports

06 // CONTACT

Got a project in mind?
Let's talk.

Infrastructure, software, AI or a technical expert opinion – email is the fastest way to reach me.

ms@ms-sw.at
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