Bram Ridder
Technical Director at Kythera AI
Vale of White Horse, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBram Ridder is a Technical Director and seasoned AI researcher with 11 years in industry and nine years focused on AI planning, grounded by a PhD in Computer Science from King's College London. He has a proven track record delivering multimillion-pound European projects and translating research into production, including creating a 3D game engine used in KCL projects PANDORA and ASUR. Bram blends deep academic expertise in scheduling and planning with hands-on systems work—contributing significant roadmap and collision-checking features to the ROSPlan planning framework. His career spans research roles at KCL to senior and leadership positions in game AI at Rebellion and Kythera AI, demonstrating both technical depth and team leadership. An avid programmer with roots in distributed systems, he is seeking roles that bridge Game AI research and applied development.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MRes Automated Planning for Autonomous Systems, MRes Automated Planning for Autonomous Systems at University of StrathclydeBachelor Technical Computer science, Bachelor Technical Computer science at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at King's College LondonMaster Parallel and Distributive systems, Master Parallel and Distributive systems at Delft University of Technology
Github Skills (8)
pathfinding10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
ros10
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
data-structure8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
KCL-Planning/ROSPlan
Mar 2015 - Apr 2016
The ROSPlan framework provides a generic method for task planning in a ROS system.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Bram primarily focused on implementing and modifying features related to roadmap generation and planning within the ROSPlan framework. They made significant code changes to the RPRoadmapServer, including the implementation of collision checks and waypoint generation. Their contributions involved integrating occupancy grid data for path planning and integrating the generated roadmap data into the knowledge base and scene database.
task-planningmethodgenericrosplanning
MoonCollider/civetweb
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
Embedded C/C++ web server
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 4 months
cppweb-serverc-plus-plusc11embedded
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