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BMW Group x TUM

Leonard Zimdars

M.Sc. Information Systems @ TUM — full-stack engineering, DevOps & IT management

Munich, GermanyMaster Thesis

Hey, I'm Leo. I build and run full-stack systems — currently at BMW Group, on a web app for evaluating vehicle E/E systems and a distributed IoT service for administering pre-series assembly loggers.

I like owning the whole loop: writing the code, building the pipeline that ships it, keeping it alive in production, then taking what the people using it say back into what gets built next. The interesting problems tend to sit at the joins between those, not inside any one of them — and that's the kind of work i enjoy most.

Leonard Zimdars standing on a ridge in the mountains at sunrise
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01 / Experience

Experience

  1. BMW Group x TUM

    Oct 2026 – Present

    Master Thesis

    Munich, Germany

    • Title: Representing Heterogeneous Diagnostic Data for Pre-Series E/E Error Analysis: A Property-Based Taxonomy and Design Principles for Knowledge Representation

  2. BMW Group

    Nov 2025 – Sep 2026

    Working-Student Systems Engineering E/E

    Munich, Germany

    • Designed and prototyped a distributed IoT application to remotely administer measurement loggers in pre-series vehicles (Azure IoT Hub, Device Provisioning, Device Twins)
    • Built the edge component and backend services for device control and monitoring (Python, Azure Functions) and a React frontend for fleet management
    • Extended the development and deployment environment (Terraform, GitHub Actions)
    • Further developed web applications for vehicle function evaluation and supplier billing (Angular, Quarkus)
    • Conceptual work on a new variant planning service; promoted AI topics across multiple teams
    • Angular
    • Azure
    • IoT
    • Systems Engineering

  3. Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG (R&S)

    Nov 2024 – Oct 2025

    Working-Student Project Management in Software Development

    Munich, Germany

    • Assisting PO with daily business and tasks
    • Defining and documenting Jira workflows
    • Assisting in creation of project proposals and organizing IT security topics
    • Contributed to transformation workflow to modernize the operating model of R&S
    • Jira
    • Confluence
    • Agile
    • Product Ownership

  4. exp Software GmbH (formerly exentra GmbH)

    Apr 2024 – Oct 2024

    Full Time IT-Solutions Engineer

    Pfaffenhofen, Germany

    • Technical lead of a customer project; design, development and deployment of a partner onboarding process in Flowable
    • Management and documentation of tasks using Atlassian across multiple teams
    • Agile development of a documentation platform; CI/CD and deployments (Kubernetes)
    • Flowable
    • Kubernetes
    • CI/CD
    • Atlassian

  5. exentra GmbH

    Sep 2022 – Mar 2024

    Working-Student Software-Engineering (Full Stack)

    Pfaffenhofen, Germany

    • Agile development of various services using Java and Quarkus/Spring
    • Evaluation of technologies to be used by the company; documentation in Confluence
    • CI/CD using Docker and Jenkins; automated and manual software tests
    • Java
    • Quarkus
    • Spring
    • Docker
    • Jenkins

02 / Projects

Projects

Three screens from classics — the hundred-book shelf with reading progress, the current round's pace chart, and a book's verdicts both sealed and opened

Classics

Aug 2026 – Present

A book club for six working through Penguin's hundred must-read classics, where nobody's writing on a book is visible to anybody else until the last member has finished it.

  • Members rank the books by pairwise comparison (binary insertion); rankings are aggregated into a club canon and compared against Penguin's reader vote
  • Spoiler protection as the core requirement: verdicts stay sealed until every member has finished a book, and notes appear to each reader only once they reach that point in the text
  • Built with Go and SQLite, server-rendered with no framework; self-contained binary with embedded assets
  • Go
  • SQLite
  • html/template
  • Docker
  • Caddy
  • Hetzner
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Screenshot of MailC: CSEE x Check24

MailC: CSEE x Check24

Apr 2026 – Jul 2026

MailC is a mail observability platform built to analyze and debug mail infrastructure issues.

  • 10 students in three teams (Frontend, Backend, DevOps)
  • Led the DevOps team
  • Set up coding guidelines and CI/CD pipelines for the project
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Hetzner
  • CI/CD
  • React
  • TypeScript
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Screenshot of KickerTUM

KickerTUM

Apr 2025 – Aug 2025

Web-based platform for foosball enthusiasts

  • Features include Table Finder, Matchmaking and Tournament System as well as ELO-based ranking
  • Implemented using the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js)
  • MongoDB
  • Express
  • React
  • Node.js
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03 / Education

Education

  1. Technische Universität München

    Oct 2024 – Present

    M.Sc. · Information Systems (Wirtschaftsinformatik)

    • Preliminary GPA: 1.5 (German Scale)
    • Focus on Software Engineering, IT Management, Cloud Technologies and Applied AI
    • Advanced Software Engineering
    • Web Application Engineering
    • Cloud Information Systems
    • Strategic IT Management
    • Enterprise Software (SAP)
    • Applied AI & Deep Learning
    • Business Process Management

  2. Technische Universität München

    Oct 2020 – Mar 2024

    B.Sc. · Information Systems (Wirtschaftsinformatik)

    • GPA: 2.4 (German Scale)
    • Focus on Software Engineering, Networking and IT-Security
    • Computer Networking
    • Distributed Systems & Middleware
    • Data Protection Law
    • IT Security
    • Software Engineering
    • Databases

04 / Skills

Skills

Languages & Frameworks
  • Java
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • Spring
  • Quarkus
  • React
  • AngularJS
Cloud Technologies
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • MS Azure
  • AWS
  • Docker
  • CI/CD
  • Jenkins
  • Ansible
  • Hetzner
Management
  • Jira
  • Agile
  • Scrum
  • Kanban
  • Confluence
  • MS365
  • Linear
Databases
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
Modeling
  • UML
  • ArchiMate
  • BPMN
APIs & Protocols
  • REST
  • GraphQL
  • OpenAPI

05 / Contact

Contact

The fastest way to reach me is email. The full CV is available as a PDF, and the source for most of my projects is on GitHub.

leonard.zimdars@web.deDownload CV (PDF)

06 / Colophon

Colophon

how this page is served

This page isn't on a PaaS. It's served by Caddy on a Hetzner VPS that Terraform provisions end to end — server, firewall, DNS records, reverse DNS. cloud-init builds the machine on first boot, so it rebuilds from nothing in about three minutes and TLS renews itself.

The infrastructure repo is public, including the notes on what broke on the way there.

  • Terraform
  • Hetzner Cloud
  • Caddy
  • Let's Encrypt
  • Astro
  • Tailwind
Infrastructure repo →