Summary
Martin Kirst is a CEO and hands-on software engineer with 11 years of experience building automation, sensor-driven systems, AI and interactive simulations for industrial environments. As founder and technical lead at Polarith GmbH since 2016 he blends product leadership with deep implementation skills in simulation, games and visualization born from research and industry roles at Fraunhofer IFF and university teaching. His background in Computervisualistik (MSc, 1.2) and early VR/visualization work informs a pragmatic approach to real-time systems and robotics-adjacent sensor integration. Colleagues know him for bridging research-grade algorithms and production automation, and for keeping a game-developer’s creativity in user-facing simulation tools.
11 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Computervisualistik, 1,2, Master of Science - MS, Computervisualistik, 1,2 at Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
German, English