Philipp Schmechel

Philipp Schmechel

Software Developer

Passionate about building niche applications that move the real world.

Featured Projects

A selection of my most impactful and interesting projects.

QiTech Control

Industrial Control Stack

QiTech Control

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QiTech Control

I am the original mind behind "Qitech Control". A single software to control multiple industrial machines running on ordinary Linux machines replacing traditional PLCs. High performance <100us cycle times using EtherCAT and support for other communication links. Abstracted architecture to easily integrate new machines and hardware. Also includes a web based SCADA panel synchronized by 60fps WebSockets. Deployed directly from GitHub to the target machines and compiled inside a custom NixOS Linux.

EtherCATRustNixOSWebSocketsReact
CTO at QiTech GmbH
Young Founders Network e.V.

Community & Events

Young Founders Network e.V.

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Young Founders Network e.V.

I initiated and cofounded YFN with 6 friends. A community of over 1600 (and counting) young entrepreneurs to connect, learn and grow together. We bring together the economic future of Germany through regular national and regional events. We also run a mentorship program, incubator, VC fund, bureaucracy tutorials and even more projects.

Next.jsMongoDB
Co-Founder
Trimlog

Mobile App

Trimlog

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Trimlog

For 3 years I built the "Strava" for sailors with a friend. Log your sailing trips and track your performance related to wind, waves and weather conditions. Record and Replay GPS tracks.

FirebaseFlutterNode.js
Co-Creator
Plastic Waste Sorter

Industrial Machine

Plastic Waste Sorter

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Plastic Waste Sorter

I built an industrial machine capable of sorting bottle caps in 8+ colors. A high speed conveyor belt system combined with air nozzles controlled by a mounted touchpanel. AI sorting based on object detection with OpenCV + fine tuned YOLO v11 and custom ByteTrack implementation in Rust.

OpenCVEtherCATRustYOLO
CTO at QiTech GmbH
Haocard

Chinese Learning App

Haocard

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Haocard

I built a mobile app to help me memorize mandarin characters using spaced repetition and flashcards with an integrated offline dictionary.

React Native
Creator

Embedded Systems

Drone Components

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Drone Components

At a drone company in China I developed various custom PCBs and STM32 firmware. The products were focused on drone control link redundancy and hardening.

CAltium Designer
Embedded Developer

CodeRabbit Clone

Code Review Bot

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Code Review Bot

At PPI I developed a clone of CodeRabbit for usage in our private GitLab deployment. Using multi-level summarization and customizable rules for pull request summarization and review.

GitLabLLMKotlin
Student at PPI AG

Atlassian Jira Plugin

Release Notes Tool

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Release Notes Tool

At PPI I developed a plugin for Jira Server to track multilingual release notes and connect them to bug and story tickets. The release notes are customized for each customer and compiled into a self contained HTML document with good styling and searchability. Project leads have a dashboard to track the completeness of release notes for each version.

KotlinJira
Student at PPI AG