Markus Achtelik
CTO at Auterion
Greater Munich Metropolitan Area Germany
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Top SchoolMarkus Achtelik is a CTO with 11 years of experience building and leading software and robotics teams across startups and large enterprises, currently steering technology at Auterion from the Greater Munich area. His background spans hands-on research to executive engineering leadership—PhD-trained in robotics from ETH Zurich, former Head of Drone Software Engineering and Data Science Manager at Intel, and a track record as Principal Architect for onboard ecosystems. He specializes in perception, visual navigation for MAVs, and integrating hardware-software stacks for autonomous systems, having also developed lightweight onboard computing platforms early in his career. Known for bridging deep research with product delivery, he moves projects from GPS-denied lab prototypes to production-grade drone software and enterprise platforms.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDiplom Ingenieur Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Diplom Ingenieur Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at Technical University of MunichDr. sc. Mechanical Engineering / Robotics, Dr. sc. Mechanical Engineering / Robotics at ETH Zürich
German, English
Github Skills (107)
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ros10
kalman10
ignition10
tedious10
sensor-fusion10
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drones10
mocap10
filter10
simulation10
gazebosim10
robot-simulator10
robotics-simulation10
yarp10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
markusachtelik/MAVSDK
Feb 2021 - Mar 2021
API and library for MAVLink compatible systems written in C++17
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 5 days
apicppc-plus-plusmavlinkraii
markusachtelik/rosdistro
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day
repositoriesros2for-eachlistsros
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