Markus Scholz
Co-Founder Und CTO at NovelSense UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolMarkus Scholz is a technology leader and co-founder with 14 years of experience translating academic research in sensing and wireless signal analysis into commercial products and startups. As CTO of DEUS POLLUTRACK and AI Lead at NovelSense, he combines hands‑on principal engineering at TRUMPF with entrepreneurial experience building low-cost, high-performance sensor solutions for smart cities and industrial automation. He holds a PhD from KIT where he led industry collaborations and supervised applied research on radio-based sensing and networked systems. Markus is skilled at bridging R&D and product delivery—turning atypical data sources (e.g., standard wireless signals) into practical IoT sensors—and often operates at the intersection of embedded systems, ML, and real-world deployment. He’s based in Karlsruhe and known for moving proof-of-concept ideas into durable, industry-ready systems.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Informatik, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Informatik at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Diplom-Informatiker, Diplom-Informatiker at Leipzig University
German, English
Github Skills (35)
contiki10
open-hardware10
driver10
lightweight-charts9
monitoring9
json9
tradingview9
kafka9
time-series9
live-charts9
modbus9
golang9
xpath8
python8
influxdb8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
teco-kit/Jennisense
Aug 2011 - Jun 2013
A modularized open hardware, sensor drivers based on contiki for the JN51xx µController. A detailed description and how-to can be found in the wiki (see link below).
Contributions:18 commits in 1 year 9 months
contikidriveropen-hardware
scholz/oak-webcam
Sep 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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