Dominick Vanthienen
CTO at Intermodalics
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolDominick Vanthienen is a CTO and robotics-focused technology leader with 16 years of experience building robot control systems, 3D vision, VSLAM and navigation solutions for clients such as Google, NASA and Softbank Robotics. He combines deep academic roots—a PhD in Mechatronics from KU Leuven and development of the iTaSC constraint-based control framework—with hands-on product delivery of edge RTLS, cloud/fog backends and React frontends. At Intermodalics he leads international teams, owns product and innovation roadmaps, and bridges R&D with business development and key accounts. His technical breadth spans C/C++, Python, ROS/Orocos, real-time systems and mechanical CAD, enabling cross-domain solutions from industrial arms to quadrotors. Notably, he has translated research-grade sensor fusion and force-control approaches into commercial products and managed the end-to-end lifecycle from prototypes to deployed logistics tracking systems.
16 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor in Engineering Science (PhD) Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, Doctor in Engineering Science (PhD) Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at KU LeuvenSecondary education Mathematics - Science, Secondary education Mathematics - Science at GroenendaalcollegeMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Mechanical Engineering at EPFLScale-up Masterclass International Business, Scale-up Masterclass International Business at Vlerick Business School
English, French, German, Dutch
Github Skills (28)
kinematics10
dynamics10
c-library10
cpp9
ros8
robot8
robotics8
tango7
planning7
eigen6
motion-planning5
astar5
fsm-library4
statechart3
fsm3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Intermodalics/rfsm_examples
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
Intermodalics/geometry2
Apr 2017 - May 2017
A set of ROS packages for keeping track of coordinate transforms.
Contributions:3 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 comment in 12 days
roboticsros-packagesroscoordinatekeeping
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