Erich Barnstedt
Senior Director & Architect, Industrial Standards, Corporate Standards Group
Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolErich Barnstedt is a seasoned software architect and standards leader with over two decades at Microsoft, currently serving as Senior Director & Architect for Industrial Standards within the Corporate Standards Group. He has driven Industry 4.0 interoperability and Industrial IoT adoption for Azure, founding the Azure Industrial IoT platform team and shaping communication protocols, data models, and digital twins across manufacturing, energy and CCS. A visible contributor to OPC UA open-source projects, he has hands-on experience implementing client-side browsing and modernizing .NET Standard samples to support UWP and HTTPS transports. Erich represents Microsoft in numerous international standards bodies (OPC Foundation, Plattform Industrie 4.0, IIC, DTC, W3C and others), bridging product teams and consortia to operationalize open standards at scale. Based in Bavaria, he combines deep systems-level engineering with strategic standards influence, unusually pairing long-term platform ownership with active low-level protocol contributions.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA Computer Science, Master of Arts - MA Computer Science at Trinity College DublinAbitur Mathematics Physics English Computer Science, Abitur Mathematics Physics English Computer Science at Schlossgymnasium Kirchheim Unter Teck
German, English, French
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Github Skills (15)
server-communication10
csharp10
client-server10
server-client-communication10
opc-ua10
dotnet-core10
server-client10
netstandard10
object-oriented-programming9
uwp9
xml9
json8
http7
azure6
azure-iothub6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
OPCFoundation/UA-.NETStandard-Samples
Feb 2016 - Apr 2020
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:145 commits in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Erich's commits primarily focused on refactoring the sample applications for the .NET Standard framework, particularly by addressing incompatibility issues with UWP apps. Key changes included replacing non-serializable XML elements and attributes with their serializable counterparts, and removing P/Invoke calls unsupported in UWP. Additionally, the user added missing JSON definitions and HTTP transport settings. The user also implemented the HTTPS transport.
OPCFoundation/UA-.NETStandard
Feb 2016 - Dec 2020
OPC Unified Architecture .NET Standard
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 293 commits, 144 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Erich implemented core functionalities related to browsing OPC Unified Architecture (.NET Standard) applications. The commits show the creation of a browser class with functionalities to interact with the OPC UA server, including options for browsing direction, reference types, and filtering. These contributions focused on the client-side interaction for discovering and exploring the information model exposed by the OPC UA servers.
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