Daniel Honies
Senior Engineer at Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre
United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Honies is a senior engineer with 11 years’ experience specializing in autonomous aerial systems and embedded flight control, currently working at Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre in Dubai. He has co-founded and led ventures developing indoor inspection drones and STEM robotics, partnering with a top German energy company and winning Gründerstipendium NRW. His background spans hands-on systems architecture, SITL simulation integration, and drone test engineering at research institutes and startups across Europe and the UAE. Daniel has led competitive robotics teams to international championships and practical makeathon projects for maritime and forest-fire detection, showing a rare blend of prototype innovation and field-focused design. Fluent in cross-cultural tech environments (based between Hsinchu and the UAE) he brings product-minded engineering to high-stakes aerospace projects. A detail often missed: he combines academic exchange experience at National Tsing Hua University with deep vocational training from HTL Wiener Neustadt, grounding advanced research in pragmatic hardware skills.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at RWTH Aachen UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Higher Technical Institute Wiener NeustadtIncoming Exchange Student Computer Science, Incoming Exchange Student Computer Science at National Tsing Hua University
Github Skills (44)
robotics10
px410
autopilot10
mavlink10
drones10
qgroundcontrol10
ros10
gazebo-simulator10
aruco9
optical-flow9
ieee9
realsense8
coco7
paper7
robot7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
danielhonies/stars
Jul 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 1 year
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team-items/MissionControl-iOS
Sep 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 34 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 4 months
ios-appsensormissioncontroliosmotors
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