Markus Grimm
Director Technology Robotics Platform
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMarkus Grimm is a seasoned software leader with a decade of experience building and scaling robotics software teams from Munich, currently heading the Software Factory at Magazino (a Jungheinrich company). He progressed internally from senior engineer to Head of Architecture and Data, blending hands-on system-level coding with strategic architecture and data responsibilities. Markus pairs deep technical chops—demonstrated by performance-focused contributions to the prominent ros_comm project, including XmlRpcDispatcher refactoring, select→poll migration, parameter caching, and log rotation—with proven people leadership across cross-functional engineering teams. His background in computer science (MSc, TUM) underpins a pragmatic approach to optimizing distributed systems and developer workflows. Colleagues rely on him to translate low-level networking and ROS performance improvements into reliable, production-grade robotics software at scale. Unexpectedly, his career shows a steady internal trajectory of growth, signaling both technical depth and strong organizational impact rather than frequent job-hopping.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Technical University of Munich
Github Skills (8)
robotics10
python10
ros10
xmlrpc10
networking9
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
system-design8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ros/ros_comm
Jan 2017 - Aug 2020
ROS communications-related packages, including core client libraries (roscpp, rospy, roslisp) and graph introspection tools (rostopic, rosnode, rosservice, rosparam).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 17 PRs, 52 comments in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Markus primarily focused on improving the `ros_comm` communications packages. Their contributions included refactoring of the `XmlRpcDispatcher`, migrating from `select` to `poll` for improved performance. The user also worked on adding parameter caching, and implementing proper log rotation for rosout. These changes demonstrate expertise in networking, system-level programming, and optimization within the ROS framework.
graphrosros-noderospyrobotics
mgrrx/aioros
Aug 2020 - Apr 2022
asyncio ROS client library
Contributions:2 reviews, 103 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 7 months
asyncioros
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