Alessandro Bottero
Research Engineer at Bosch Research
Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolAlessandro Bottero is a research engineer and PhD-trained AI specialist with eight years of software engineering experience, focused on reinforcement learning and applied robotics. Based in Stuttgart, he moved from a consulting background at TNG into deep research at BCAI and now drives research initiatives at Bosch Research. He blends rigorous theoretical physics training with hands-on full-stack development, notably contributing to the widely used RViz 3D robot visualizer where he implemented polygon rendering, alpha blending, camera fixes, and a visual testing framework. Comfortable across codebases and research, he bridges academic publishing and production-grade engineering to turn RL ideas into robust systems. Colleagues value his knack for solving platform-specific issues (including macOS nuances) and for introducing maintainable testing practices in legacy C++ projects.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Liceo Classico "Alessandro Volta" di ComoMaster of Science (MSc) Elite Master Sourse Theorethical and Mathematical Physics, Master of Science (MSc) Elite Master Sourse Theorethical and Mathematical Physics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenTechnischen Universität DarmstadtMaster of Science (MSc) Elite Master Sourse Theorethical and Mathematical Physics, Master of Science (MSc) Elite Master Sourse Theorethical and Mathematical Physics at Technical University of MunichBachelor's degree Physics, Bachelor's degree Physics at Università di Pavia
Github Skills (7)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
ogre10
ros10
rviz10
testing9
cmake8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ros2/rviz
Feb 2018 - Aug 2018
ROS 3D Robot Visualizer
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 17 PRs, 39 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Alessandro migrated the polygon display functionality, involving changes to both the header and source files for the display. They refactored the code, added features such as alpha blending and addressed platform-specific warnings. The user also worked on improving the camera's default position and implemented changes to the pose array display. Moreover, they introduced a visual testing framework for RViz and addressed MacOS-specific issues.
roboticsvisualizerrobotrosrviz
bsinno/geometry2
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
A set of ROS packages for keeping track of coordinate transforms.
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
roboticsros-packagesroscoordinatekeeping
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