Speaker biography
Philippe Käufer is a Business Development Engineer at Vector Informatik, specialising in engineering platforms, hardware access and continuous validation. His work focuses on integrating physical test hardware into modern CI/CD workflows, helping engineering teams achieve faster feedback, higher utilisation and scalable development processes.
Presentation
“Anyone got a free board right now?” That question appears in almost every developer chat. The software build runs fully automatically, but the path to real hardware still leads through colleagues, calendars and a walk to the laboratory. This presentation shares Vector's experience turning globally distributed hardware into a shared platform that serves both automated CI/CT pipelines and everyday developer work. It examines what it takes to make hardware bookable and remotely controllable, integrate it into existing build pipelines, and close the organisational gap that often separates software teams from the people who own the test hardware. Attendees will learn how the Commit to Hardware concept connects modern CI/CT practices with physical product validation. Using real examples from Vector's journey, the presentation shows how treating hardware as a shared platform enables faster feedback, higher automation and more efficient use of globally distributed test resources.