Harald Sanftmann
Senior Technical Product Owner at HARMAN International
Greater Munich Metropolitan Area Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolHarald Sanftmann is a Senior Technical Product Owner with over 10 years driving in-car augmented reality and navigation software at HARMAN, leading teams that delivered AR-HUD innovations such as the Transparent Hood showcased at CES 2025. He combines a deep academic background (Dr. rer. nat. in Computer Science) and published research in visualization with hands-on systems engineering from OpenGL ES on QNX to modern AR rendering pipelines. He has progressed from low-level graphics developer to product leader, repeatedly shipping features for premium OEMs and mentoring cross-functional teams in rendering, routing, and traffic domains. Known for bridging rigorous research and product delivery, he supervises student work and maintains ties to university research while steering industry-facing innovation.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. rer. nat., Informatik, Dr. rer. nat., Informatik at Universität Stuttgart
English
Github Skills (61)
image-manipulation9
imagemagick8
dlib8
computer-vision8
perf8
visualizer8
image-processing8
convert7
image7
homekit7
machine-learning7
trace7
python7
performance-tuning7
xiaomi6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Harry79/hdr-srn
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:13 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
Harry79/mlx90640-library
Apr 2020 - Jul 2021
Python library for the MLX90640 thermal camera
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
python-librarypythonthermalmlx90640camera
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