Manuel Belke
Co-Founder at Werkzeugmaschinenlabor WZL der RWTH Aachen
Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolManuel Belke is a robotics and automation engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience bridging research, industry projects, and entrepreneurship from Aachen, Germany. As Co-Founder of Athenyx Robotics and Team Leader at WZL RWTH Aachen while pursuing a PhD, he combines cutting-edge robotics R&D with practical IIoT and industrial automation deployments. He has led projects across smart agriculture, industrial robots and demonstrators for clients, translating complex control, communication (MQTT) and machine learning concepts into working systems. Manuel’s background spans mechanical engineering, aeronautics studies at KTH and a deep learning nanodegree, giving him a rare blend of hardware, controls and ML expertise. He also contributes to open-source game-server code (teeworlds), demonstrating attention to robust backend state management and real-time features beyond classical robotics. Clients and teams benefit from his curiosity-driven approach and tendency to prototype novel solutions that are deployable in production environments.
15 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik, Aeronautik und Astronautik, Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik, Aeronautik und Astronautik at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyNanodegree, Deep Learning, Nanodegree, Deep Learning at UdacityMaster of Science - MS, Automatisierungstechnik, Master of Science - MS, Automatisierungstechnik at RWTH Aachen University
German, English, Swedish
Github Skills (10)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
teeworlds/teeworlds
Jan 2011 - Sep 2020
A retro multiplayer shooter
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 271 commits, 38 PRs in 9 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Manuel primarily worked on fixing and improving the game's server-side logic related to game state management and race features. Their contributions include fixing end-round time calculations, ensuring game state transitions, and addressing issues in the survival mode. Furthermore, the user implemented new race features, such as displaying map records and time-based results in the scoreboard and HUD. These changes suggest a focus on enhancing the game's core gameplay mechanics.
2d-gameteeworldsgamewindowsretro
axblk/teeworlds
Feb 2017 - Dec 2021
A retro multiplayer shooter
Contributions:9 releases, 147 commits, 7 PRs in 4 years 11 months
2d-gamegameretroshootermultiplayer
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