Christian Kerl
Manager Shopfloor IT at BRP-Rotax GmbH & Co KG
Linz, Upper Austria
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Top SchoolChristian Kerl is an implementation-driven manufacturing and IT leader with 18 years’ experience steering product, production and digitalization efforts in developing and producing industries, currently managing Shopfloor IT at BRP-Rotax. He combines strategic oversight as a former CTO with hands-on process optimization expertise—launching a sustainable product family, cutting setup times and waste, and instituting an Operational Excellence program. Comfortable leading large teams (46 direct reports) he blends Lean methodology, production engineering and digital transformation to automate and scale shopfloor processes. A systems thinker with a technical engineering background (Dipl.-Ing., Manufacturing & Management), he also contributes low-level device driver work in open-source projects like libfreenect2, demonstrating appetite for practical, hands-on development alongside executive responsibility.
18 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom-Ingenieur, Manufacturing and Management, Diplom-Ingenieur, Manufacturing and Management at Fachhochschule Steyr
Github Skills (8)
c-language10
usb10
cprogramming-language10
opengl9
data-analysis6
sys5
embedded5
opencl4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
OpenKinect/libfreenect2
Dec 2013 - Jul 2015
Open source drivers for the Kinect for Windows v2 device
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:155 commits, 20 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Christian implemented a proof of concept for RGB data transfer within the Kinect for Windows v2 device driver. The commits include modifications to the Protonect example, including modifications to isochronous transfers. Additionally, the user added several files to assist with depth decoding experiments and analysis of the captured IR data.
driverswindowskinectopenvrsteamvr
christiankerl/ckWsdlGenerator
Jun 2008 - Sep 2009
Contributions:56 commits in 1 year 2 months
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