Andreas Okholm
Founder, CEO & CTO at KiteX
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolAndreas Okholm is a founder-CEO-CTO with 13 years of experience turning lightweight aerospace design and hands-on engineering into commercially viable wind energy solutions. He invented and commercialized award-winning wind meters at Vaavud and now leads KiteX, where his patented, ultra-material-efficient TWT-11 has secured €2.3M in pre-orders and a clear path to rural electrification. Equally at home in product strategy, fundraising and low-level engineering, Andreas combines self-taught software and electronics chops (C++, C#, Swift, Python, Go, TypeScript; PCB and power-electronics design) with formal training in design and aerospace from DTU and an INSEAD innovation program. He contributed to MAVSDK to extend attitude control for drones, reflecting a practical focus on control systems and embedded back-end work that underpins his energy systems. Known for stretching high-risk R&D into pragmatic commercialization, he finances most R&D through non-dilutive grants and leads a compact engineering team toward series production.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) - Exchange Program Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.) - Exchange Program Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering at University of AdelaideDanish Innovation fund: Making Innovation Happen Programme Business Administration and Management General, Danish Innovation fund: Making Innovation Happen Programme Business Administration and Management General at INSEADTechnical University of Denmark
English, Danish
Stackoverflow
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4questions
Github Skills (13)
c1710
cpp10
mavlink10
apidoc9
sys9
api9
embedded9
ios6
hibernate6
nodejs6
node-gyp6
firebase6
mysql6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mavlink/MAVSDK
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
API and library for MAVLink compatible systems written in C++17
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Andreas contributed significantly to the offboard plugin, enhancing its functionality for attitude control. Their work involved defining data structures for attitude commands, implementing methods to set and send attitude data, and integrating these features within the offboard control loop. Furthermore, the user added an example demonstrating how to use the new attitude control feature, improving the usability of the library. The commits demonstrate a focus on extending the MAVSDK API to support new control modes for drones.
apicppc-plus-pluscpp17mavlink
kitextech/Firmware
Jan 2017 - Jul 2019
PX4 Pro Autopilot Software
Contributions:58 commits, 1 PR, 50 pushes in 2 years 6 months
autopilotpx4raspberry-pimavlink
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