Jan Winkler
Senior Software Architect at NVIDIA
California, United States
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Top SchoolJan Winkler is a Senior Software Architect at NVIDIA with 14 years of experience designing robotics and machine-tool software from research prototypes to production systems. He combines a PhD in Robotics and AI with a strong mechanical-engineering and control-theory background to deliver robust solutions in planning, optimization, simulation, and low-level control. His career spans academia and industry—developing trajectory-generation and control algorithms, robot kinematics, perception integration in ROS, and condition monitoring for additive manufacturing. At Bosch and TRUMPF he translated research ideas into industrial intralogistics and agricultural robotics products, and at NVIDIA he now shapes architecture-level decisions for robot software stacks. Jan is comfortable across C/C++, Java, and real-time systems and brings an uncommon blend of theoretical rigor and hands-on implementation, often turning complex control math into deployable code. Based in California, he focuses on bridging perception, planning, and control to make autonomous systems predictable and performant.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Mechanical Engineering, Diploma Thesis, Diploma, Mechanical Engineering, Diploma Thesis at Toyohashi University of TechnologyDiplomingenieur (Dipl.-Ing.), Technische Kybernetik (Engineering Cybernetics), Diplomingenieur (Dipl.-Ing.), Technische Kybernetik (Engineering Cybernetics) at Universität Stuttgart
German, English
Github Skills (64)
webots10
robotics10
gazebosim10
hierarchical10
ignition10
hierarchy10
php10
crazyflie10
cpp10
ros10
gazebo-simulator10
recorder9
markdown9
semantic9
lisp9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
code-iai-release/iai_common_msgs-release
Mar 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:2441 pushes, 722 branches in 1 year 1 month
code-iai/semrec
Nov 2013 - Oct 2016
Semantic Hierarchy Recorder for (autonomous) hierarchical experiment data that is semantically annotated
Contributions:568 commits, 6 PRs, 96 pushes in 2 years 11 months
autonomoushierarchicalexperiment-dataannotatedrecorder
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