Alexander Sandman
Promotor at Sandman talking ...
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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RockstarAlexander Sandman is a mechatronics engineer and Promotor based in Cologne with nine years of hands-on experience blending embedded systems hardware and software. He contributes to high-profile open-source projects like ArduPilot, enabling hardware integrations (e.g., Pixhawk4, KellerLD pressure sensor) and fixing nuanced subsystem bugs for autonomous vehicles and underwater platforms. Known for making physical systems easier to use through pragmatic software tools, he focuses on practical solutions that improve reliability and developer ergonomics. Comfortable across IoT, embedded firmware, and system-level parameter tuning, he brings a maker’s curiosity together with production-minded discipline. Less obvious: he combines field-tested hardware expertise with a habit of sharing improvements publicly, amplifying impact beyond his immediate projects.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
embedded10
drones10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
autopilot10
sys10
mavlink10
rover9
robotics9
i2c8
python7
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
ArduPilot/ardupilot
Jul 2021 - Dec 2022
ArduPlane, ArduCopter, ArduRover, ArduSub source
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:68 reviews, 12 commits, 37 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributes to the ArduPilot project by making changes related to specific hardware integrations and subsystem enhancements. Their work involves enabling features for specific hardware (Pixhawk4, KellerLD pressure sensor) and addressing issues related to the sub component of the project (GCS_Mavlink depth hold bug). The commits also involve modifying parameters and implementing tools related to the ArduSub project.
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ES-Alexander/mavlink-devguide
Sep 2021 - Mar 2026
MAVLink Developer Guide
Contributions:6 pushes, 11 branches in 4 years 6 months
mavlinkdeveloper-guide
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