Andreas Bircher
Senior Technical Program Manager at Wingtra
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolAndreas Bircher is a Senior Technical Program Manager based in Zurich with 11 years of experience bridging robotics research and product-driven engineering. Trained in robotics and systems control at ETH Zurich and TU Delft, he progressed from research on 3D exploration and inspection to hands-on robotics software and program management at Wingtra. He combines deep embedded and autopilot expertise—evidenced by contributions to the PX4 autopilot and QGroundControl ground station—with a product focus on mission planning, geotagging and offline workflows. Known for translating academic algorithms into reliable aerial-inspection features, he shepherds cross-functional teams from prototype to production. Colleagues rely on him to tame complexity at the intersection of flight systems, hardware I/O, and user-facing tooling.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Robotics, Systems & Control, Master of Science (MS), Robotics, Systems & Control at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichTU Delft
German, English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (17)
c-language10
qt10
drones10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
sys10
pwm10
qml10
embedded10
cprogramming-language10
mavlink9
autopilot9
python8
ros6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mavlink/qgroundcontrol
Jul 2016 - Apr 2018
Cross-platform ground control station for drones (Android, iOS, Mac OS, Linux, Windows)
Role in this project:
Back-end & UI Developer
Back-end & UI DeveloperContributions:47 commits, 15 PRs, 86 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily contributed to the ground control station's mission editor and related features. Their work involved implementing unit conversion functionality for area calculations and area unit selection within the UI. They also added UI elements to display drone mission statistics. The user further integrated support for offline mission editing and geotagging backend features.
linux-osios-androidiosdroneground
PX4/PX4-Autopilot
Feb 2016 - Aug 2016
PX4 Autopilot Software
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 11 PRs, 23 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Andreas focused on enhancing the camera triggering mechanism within the PX4 autopilot software. Their contributions involved adding logging for camera trigger events and implementing a new triggering mode based on covered horizontal distance. Furthermore, the user worked on integrating PWM control for camera power and triggering, including arming state checks, and addressing related driver interfaces. The work included adding and improving the geotagging scripts.
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