Florian Hänel
Owner, CTO, CEO at echtzeit.solutions GmbH
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolFlorian Hänel is an experienced embedded Linux engineer and technology leader with 15 years in the industry and a decade focused on shipping consumer devices like the Nokia N9 and multiple TV platforms. As founder and CTO of echtzeit.solutions he blends hands-on C/C++ and cross-platform development with product delivery and Agile consulting, frequently working with Qt/QML, WebKit/Gecko, and GPU-accelerated graphics stacks. His background includes deep work on video codecs and hardware VPUs (e.g., i.MX6), browser internals (CSS3, HTML5 video, canvas), and modern graphics APIs from GLES/EGL to Vulkan and RTX raytracing. Florian also contributes to open-source simulation tooling, improving NPC behavior and sensor APIs in the lgsvl autonomous vehicle simulator, showing an interest in realistic systems beyond embedded consumer devices. Based in Munich with a Diplom in Computer Science, he combines pragmatic engineering with architecture-level thinking across both firmware and UI layers.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Computer Science, Diplom, Computer Science at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
English, German
Github Skills (10)
cs-script10
script10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
unity3d10
simulations9
simulation9
autonomous-vehicles9
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
lgsvl/simulator
May 2020 - Sep 2021
A ROS/ROS2 Multi-robot Simulator for Autonomous Vehicles
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:108 commits, 34 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Florian primarily focused on fixing and improving Non-Player Character (NPC) functionality within the autonomous vehicle simulator. Their contributions included resolving issues related to NPC behavior, particularly lane following, and also implemented the addition of NPC metadata, specifically vehicle size. Further contributions were made to address cloud-related merging issues and included fixes to sensor API functionality. These changes suggest a focus on improving the realism and functionality of simulated autonomous vehicle behavior.
simulationcarlasimulatorunitybaidu
heeen/aoc2021
Dec 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:60 commits, 45 pushes, 5 branches in 5 months
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