Dirk Fischer currently serves as a System Architect at Hilscher Gesellschaft für Systemautomation mbH, a position held since November 2023. Prior to this role, Dirk held various positions at Hilscher from April 2014 to November 2022, including Software Product Manager, Department Manager Service, and Group Leader netX Service, focusing on industrial real-time communication systems. Dirk's experience also includes working as a Senior Product Marketing Engineer at Fujitsu Semiconductor Europe GmbH from 2007 to March 2014, where product management of industrial microcontrollers and semiconductor products was a key responsibility. Earlier roles include Digital Design Engineer at Infineon Technologies (2004-2007) and various engineering positions at Fujitsu Semiconductor Europe GmbH (1999-2004) and iC-Haus GmbH (1998-1999). Dirk Fischer obtained a Diplom-Ingenieur degree in Datentechnik from Technische Universität Darmstadt and spent a year at Trinity College Dublin.