Christian Höppner
Software Engineer at Google
Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Höppner is a software engineer with 11 years of experience and a strong foundation in physics (Dipl. Phys. and Dr. rer. nat. from TUM, both with highest honors) who now works at Google after leadership and engineering roles in autonomous driving and sensor domains. He has moved from hands-on sensor and system architecture at Bosch and Continental to managing software teams at Argo AI and building production software for autonomous systems at AID. His background blends deep algorithmic and hardware-proximal expertise with large-scale software delivery, making him adept at bridging research-grade models and product-quality systems. Based in Bavaria, he brings applied research rigor to pragmatic engineering decisions and has repeatedly translated complex sensor and perception problems into deployable solutions. Less obvious: his career trajectory shows a pattern of progressing from component-level sensor expertise to end-to-end autonomy software leadership, indicating both technical depth and systems-level vision.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl. Phys., Physics, mit Auszeichnung, Dipl. Phys., Physics, mit Auszeichnung at Technical University Munich
German, English
Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (34)
Github contributions (5)
mkaito/dotfiles
May 2015 - Feb 2025
Contributions:24 pushes in 9 years 11 months
mkaito/nixos-modded-minecraft-servers
Nov 2020 - Nov 2022
A NixOS module to run multiple modded minecraft servers.
Contributions:14 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
nix-flakeminecraftnixos-modulemoddednixos
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