Florian Tschopp
Chief Technology Officer at Voliro
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolFlorian Tschopp is a robotics-focused technology leader and CTO based in Zurich with eight years of experience spanning academia and industry, including a PhD-driven research background at ETH Zürich. He has progressed rapidly through technical and leadership roles at Voliro—now CTO after stints as VP Technology and Software Lead—bringing hands-on expertise in perception, mapping and systems engineering. His work at ETH’s Autonomous Systems Lab involved building robust, large-scale mapping solutions for high-speed rail and underground environments, plus running CI, GPU nodes and lab infrastructure. Florian contributes to open-source mapping tooling (notably debugging and extending the maplab localization/evaluation pipeline) and is comfortable across back-end development, sensor integrations, and trajectory export formats. He combines rigorous research methods with product-driven execution, bridging field data collection and production-grade software. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who surfaces subtle localization issues early and turns experimental setups into deployable systems.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Matura Biologie/Chemie, Matura Biologie/Chemie at Gymnasium LiestalMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Robotics Systems and Control, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Robotics Systems and Control at ETH Zürich
German, English
Github Skills (4)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ethz-asl/maplab
Dec 2019 - Jun 2022
A Modular and Multi-Modal Mapping Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 163 commits, 35 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Florian primarily focused on debugging and refining the localization evaluation module within the maplab framework. Their contributions included adding and reverting debug output, suggesting an effort to identify and resolve issues related to localization accuracy. Additionally, the user fixed a minor typo within a test file. They also implemented an option to export trajectory data in the RPG format.
visual-inertialnot-matlabinertialmapping
ethz-asl/versavis
Dec 2019 - Sep 2021
An Open Versatile Multi-Camera Visual-Inertial Sensor Suite
Contributions:1 release, 12 reviews, 45 commits in 1 year 9 months
imucameravisual-inertialmulti-camerainertial
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