Oliver Harley
Co-Founder And CTO at SAEKI Robotics
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolOliver Harley is a robotics-focused technology leader and CTO, co-founding SAEKI Robotics in Zurich to build the future of legged robotics and autonomous systems. With more than 10 years of experience spanning mechanical engineering, research, and back-end software, he blends control theory with practical system integration. He is an active open-source contributor on leggedrobotics/ocs2, implementing derivative checking for optimal control and refining ROS integration in core components and example nodes. His academic foundation includes an MSc in Robotics, Systems, and Control from ETH Zurich and a BSc in Mechanical Engineering with Informatics from the University of Melbourne. Based in Zurich, Oliver has experience as a research assistant at ETH Zurich and a track record of internships and industry roles that bridge academia and startup product development. He is passionate about translating advanced control and hardware-software co-design into scalable robotics solutions and invites collaborators to join SAEKI Robotics' mission.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
ETH Zurich
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
control-theory10
controls10
c-language10
ros10
controlling10
control-flow10
c-programming-language10
mpc9
matlab6
segmentation-fault6
scopes6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
leggedrobotics/ocs2
Oct 2019 - May 2020
Optimal Control for Switched Systems
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Oliver implemented features related to system derivative checking within the optimal control framework. This involved modifying core DDP (Differential Dynamic Programming) base classes and adding functionality to test derivatives. Additionally, the user made changes to example nodes, specifically removing ROS arguments before checking argc. This indicates a focus on the core computational aspects and integration with ROS.
roboticsmpcswitched-systemsoptimal-controlyarp
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Nov 2019 - Dec 2021
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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