Himangshu Saikia
Senior Staff Software Engineer at FERNRIDE
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolHimangshu Saikia is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Munich with 11 years of experience building production-grade systems and leading engineering efforts across robotics and autonomous vehicle companies. With a PhD-level research background and roles at Argo AI, Autonomous Intelligent Driving, and FERNRIDE, he blends deep academic rigor with hands-on software engineering—especially in systems that require safety-conscious, distributed architectures. He is a pragmatic generalist who ships end-to-end solutions, comfortable coding in languages like Rust and mentoring teams as he has in managerial and senior technical roles. His background includes postdoctoral research and research engineering at top European institutes, which informs a methodical approach to complex problem solving. As an educational content creator and computer scientist, he also communicates complex ideas clearly, helping bridge research, engineering, and learning. An understated thread through his career is translating advanced research into reliable, deployable software for real-world autonomous systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Max Planck Institute for InformaticsB.Tech Computer Science, B.Tech Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology, GuwahatiDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyMasters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at Universität des Saarlandes
English, Assamese, Hindi, German
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Github Skills (25)
serve10
unity3d10
deep-reinforcement-learning9
reinforcement-learning9
simulations9
intelligent9
ml-agents9
deep-learning8
machine-learning8
imitation-learning7
visualization4
glsl4
opencl4
scientific-visualization4
kraken4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hsaikia/mtlib
Jun 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
hsaikia/XewaliChess
Jan 2018 - Jul 2023
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
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