Kirk Scheper
Principal Engineer at Sony
Schlieren, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolKirk Scheper is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of experience at the intersection of AI, robotics, and embedded systems, currently leading sensing research and technology strategy for Sony in Switzerland. He combines rigorous academic training—a PhD from TU Delft—with hands-on product engineering, from stereo camera integration to sensor fusion for unmanned aerial systems. As the first hire at Sony R&D Center Europe, he helped establish local research themes and move concepts toward real-world perception solutions. An active contributor to the Paparazzi open-source UAV project, he has deep experience in Bluetooth telemetry, stereo vision modules, and low-level embedded communication stacks. Colleagues describe him as curious about fundamental physical phenomena and relentless about turning that insight into robust, deployable systems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc. Minor, Bsc. Minor at Nanyang Technological UniversityTU Delft
English, Dutch, German
Github Skills (9)
c1710
embedded10
para10
c1110
sys10
par10
sensor9
telemetry9
i2c9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
paparazzi/paparazzi
Aug 2015 - Jun 2019
Paparazzi is a free and open-source hardware and software project for unmanned (air) vehicles. This is the main software repository.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:131 commits, 142 PRs, 114 pushes in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Kirk contributed significantly to the development of the software for unmanned aerial vehicles. Their commits reveal work on the bluegiga Bluetooth dongle, adding and updating the code to improve communication and implement new messaging protocols. They also added a module for reading data from a stereo camera and integrated it into the system. Further enhancements include the integration of a telemetry system for the bluetooth module with code for receiving and handling data, and updates to the sensor fusion.
pprzpaparazziairdroneshardware
tudelft/stereoboard_testing
Sep 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:3 PRs, 7 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 2 months
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