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)
gogs10
firmware10
qmk10
perl10
vim10
satisfactory10
rack10
weechat10
nix-flake10
atmel10
nixpkgs10
major-mode10
password-manager10
nix10
plugin-loader10
Programming languages (33)
Github contributions (5)
mkaito/qmk_firmware
Nov 2018 - Jul 2022
keyboard controller firmware for Atmel AVR USB family
Contributions:17 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 8 months
controllerfirmwareavratmelusb
mkaito/SE-Better-Deep-Scarce-Stone
Jan 2022 - May 2026
Contributions:25 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 4 months
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