Jiachi Zou
Chief Executive Officer at SIEON Technology
Greater Munich Metropolitan Area Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJiachi Zou is a technology founder and CEO with 10 years of hands-on experience building embedded and flight-control software for commercial and research platforms. Based in the Munich area, he leads SIEON Technology after engineering roles at Green Hills Software, Autel Robotics, and MediaTek where he focused on safety-critical systems and flight control. He authored the open-source Firmament Autopilot, signaling a practical, code-first approach to autonomous systems and an emphasis on reproducible engineering. Trained with a Master’s in Embedded Systems from Eindhoven University of Technology, he blends academic rigor with product-minded execution. Colleagues describe him by his GitHub motto—“Talk is cheap, show me the code”—reflecting a bias toward shipping working systems rather than just designs. He brings entrepreneurial leadership plus deep embedded-software and avionics expertise to teams building reliable autonomous platforms.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Embedded System, Master's degree Embedded System at Eindhoven University of TechnologyBachelor's degree Electronic Information and Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electronic Information and Engineering at Central South University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (71)
simulator10
rover10
unreal10
embedded10
ros10
robotics10
autopilot10
qt10
mavlink10
multicore10
fmt10
matlab10
autonomous-vehicles10
control-systems10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
JcZou/gazebo_quadsim
Mar 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes in 4 months
gazebosimulationsimulatoruavgazebo-simulator
Firmament-Autopilot/FMT-Firmware
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Firmament Autopilot Embedded System
Contributions:6 releases, 11 reviews, 933 commits in 2 years 6 months
roboticsevtolsimulinkmulticopterpixhawk
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