Frank Kusters
Software Architect at High Tech Institute
Arnhem-Nijmegen Region Netherlands
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SeniorFrank Kusters is a pragmatic Software Architect and systems engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in automotive and heavy-duty vehicle systems, currently shaping software strategy at NXP Semiconductors while leading system engineering at Sioux Technologies. He excels at taming product complexity—balancing usability, testability, and incremental refactoring—to keep successful products evolving without disruption. Frank combines hands-on low-level skills (from writing LIN drivers for 8-bit microcontrollers) with system-level thinking, rapidly delivering demonstrable results such as getting all software ready for the Lightyear One demonstration within six months. As a trainer in System Architecting at the High Tech Institute, he translates prototypes into coached team practices, acting as the bridge between management and engineering. He’s particularly drawn to tough, wheel-based challenges and projects that reduce fossil-fuel dependence, and he enjoys turning early prototypes into teachable patterns that scale across teams.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (115)
ros10
fsm-library10
transition10
automata10
lists10
netbsd9
openbsd9
encoding9
eclipse9
freebsd9
reminder9
ps9
java9
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
frankkusters/rosdistro
Aug 2022 - Oct 2024
This repo maintains a lists of repositories for each ROS distribution
Contributions:20 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 2 months
repositoriesros2for-eachlistsros
frankkusters/diagnostics
Jun 2022 - Jul 2023
Packages related to gathering, viewing, and analyzing diagnostics data from robots.
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 2 months
analyzinggatheringdiagnosticsrobots
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