Stefan Richter

Grid Modernization Strategist at Red Hat

Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

About

I dedicated my career to the advancement of modern software engineering in the electrical and machine industry. I worked in many different roles: as software engineer, researcher, R&D project manager, software architect, team lead, consultant, program manager, sales person, lecturer, and professor; in organizations in industry and academia; with a wide range of systems from small-factor embedded systems with microsecond response times to large distributed systems; and within different domains: electrification, railway, industrial automation, etc. I show technical and managerial leadership and possess expert knowledge in change management and process improvement. I am an empathic listener with a hands-on attitude connecting R&D to business. At the moment, I am working with Red Hat to bring open source software and in particular Linux to the world's power grids.

Experience

  • Grid Modernization Strategist at Red Hat
    Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

    Responsible for advancing the electric power industry with enterprise-ready open source software.

  • Founder at Semper Engineering
    Mar 2023 - Oct 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos

    High-Quality Software Engineering from inception to implementation and everything in between with a focus on code quality and process improvements.

  • OST - Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (6 yrs 1 mo)
    • Director of Studies
      Sep 2018 - Feb 2023 · 4 yrs 6 mos

    • Professor
      Feb 2017 - Feb 2023 · 6 yrs 1 mo

  • ABB (10 yrs)
    • Software Development Improvement Program, Manager Division Discrete Motion
      Oct 2013 - Jan 2017 · 3 yrs 4 mos

    • Head of Software Development, MV Drives R&D
      Aug 2013 - Jan 2017 · 3 yrs 6 mos

    • R&D Project Manager
      Nov 2011 - Jul 2013 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Software Engineer at Hasso Plattner Institute
    Sep 2000 - Aug 2006 · 6 yrs

    Implementation of components for commercial SW systems (C++, Java, C#) Evaluation of Microsoft’s Java Language Conversion Assistant (Java to C#)