Thomas Irgang

Linux integration for the SDV platform of an international contract manufacturer, plus an internal SDV research and development programme.

• Built up and led the Linux integration team, steering internationally distributed development between Germany and India.
• Wrote the technical proposal concept for the Linux integration of the platform.
• Since May 2026 additionally accountable for an agile research and development programme.
• Designed the CI/CT/CD infrastructure on GitHub Actions, KAS and Yocto and implemented it with the team.
• Worked out Linux platform features such as automatic network configuration, OTA update and app security isolation with the system architecture team and delivered them.
• Introduced AI-assisted analysis and development tooling (RAG, GitHub Copilot).

Product ownership for an automotive Linux distribution for high-performance controllers and software-defined vehicles.

• Owned the product roadmap and backlog of the R&D team and steered resource planning.
• Assessed customer requirements for proposals as technical bid lead.
• Developed a snapshot and release concept including its infrastructure, a prerequisite for automotive series production.
• Designed automated release documentation and qualification as well as a customer SDK, and implemented both with the team.
• Developed concepts for SBOM and for the qualification of Ubuntu packages for industrial embedded Linux applications together with Canonical.

Linux software stack for the central high performance controller of a German OEM's electric vehicle platform.

• Held technical ownership of the project-specific Linux distribution including its maintenance across the programme.
• Developed an ASPICE-compliant open-source qualification strategy and ran the qualification on the project hardware.
• Owned CVE handling for the platform and supported the process definition behind it.
• Developed a long-term maintenance concept for the open-source software in use, convinced the companies involved to carry out a Linux upgrade, planned it and implemented it with the team.
• Owned risk and change management and agreed change-request proposals with the customer.
• Contributed to the on-time start of series production and to subsequent model-update releases.

• Led a distributed international development team.
• Advised on and supported the modernisation of enterprise web applications for a corporate client in logistics (Java EE, SOA, OAuth 2.0).

UI/UX customisation of an infotainment platform for a British luxury vehicle manufacturer, in a dual product owner and project manager role.

• Negotiated scope and technical feasibility with the OEM and steered several Scrum teams.
• Aligned vehicle integration with the OEM's lead architect.
• Negotiated a change request after feature complete and delivered an additional UI variant.
• Synchronised vehicle-specific features with the platform development.

Connected infotainment services in the infotainment platform of a German automotive group.

• Function Owner Online: further development and defect correction of the online software, clarifying interfaces with the OEM function owners.
• Product Owner for the HMI online integration and, in the successor project, for the Online and Speech modules.
• Designed, planned and delivered the integration of a voice assistant into the platform together with external service providers.
• Delivered voice control for one of the group's sports car brands (Java, QNX).
• Ran bug triage and escalation workshops and produced effort and risk assessments for change requests.

Customer project at an automotive software manufacturer.

• HMI software development for an infotainment platform (Java, EB GUIDE).
• Function Owner for the HMI Online module (Java, embedded, QNX).
• Assessed customer requirements for technical feasibility and coordinated work packages within the development team.

Software Engineering and Theory of Programming department.

• Research on the synthesis of Petri nets from behavioural descriptions: formal methods, process modelling, process mining. Results published at peer-reviewed conferences.
• Lead developer of Viptool, the department's process analysis tool (Java).
• Contributed to the EU project Metafora, taught lab courses and supervised theses.

Alongside the diploma studies in mathematics, latterly as a research associate in the EU project Metafora.

• Conception, architecture and development of the Metafora learning platform (Java EE, GWT).
• Development of the process analysis tool Viptool (Java).