Karsten Koop
Entwicklungsleiter at Skylance GmbH
Hürth, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolKarsten Koop is a pragmatic engineering leader with 12 years of experience building embedded systems, CI/CD pipelines, and safety-critical software across aerospace, IoT, and industrial domains. He has led development teams and held CTO responsibilities at e-Wolf and Skylance, driving projects from STM32 firmware to drone-defense simulations and CFD-related tooling. His background blends a PhD in physics with hands-on C/C++/CMake development, test automation, and DevOps (Jenkins, Docker), plus domain know-how in functional safety (IEC 61508) and IoT security standards. Karsten excels at turning rigorous requirements and FMEA outputs into reproducible release pipelines and verifiable embedded code. Colleagues know him for scaling teams, hiring and mentoring engineers, and bridging research-grade prototypes to product-grade systems. Based in Bonn, he brings a rare mix of academic rigor and product-focused execution that shines in complex, safety-conscious projects.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. rer. nat, Physik, Dr. rer. nat, Physik at The University of Bonn
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Github Skills (23)
geocoding9
sudoku9
nominatim8
openstreetmap-data8
openstreetmap8
weblate7
logger7
temperature7
pointer6
php6
segmentation-fault6
linux6
qt6
winapi6
csharp5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kkoop/pizza
Mar 2018 - Jul 2024
Webseite zur Verwaltung gemeinsamer Pizzabestellungen
Contributions:1 PR, 80 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 4 months
verwaltungwebseite
kkoop/qibutton
Jan 2014 - Aug 2017
QIButton: read Dallas iButton temperature logger DS1922 with DS9490
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 years 7 months
loggertemperature-loggertemperature
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