Matthias Killat
Senior SW Engineer, SW Architect - Robotics at Apex.AI
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthias Killat is a Senior Software Engineer and SW Architect in robotics with 6+ years of industry experience building high-performance middleware and concurrent systems for autonomous driving and ROS 2. He specializes in C++-centric design and implementation of shared-memory IPC (iceoryx) and its integration into CycloneDDS to enable zero-copy, low-latency communication across robotic stacks. His background in applied mathematics and algorithm research informs work on lock-free data structures, optimization, and scalable image-processing pipelines, with ISO 26262 experience for safety-critical deployments. Matthias brings a blend of academic teaching and hands-on engineering, having moved from algorithmic research and combinatorial optimization to shipping production middleware at Apex.AI and Bosch. He contributes to notable open-source projects like Eclipse CycloneDDS and iceoryx, focusing on reliable QoS and shared-memory monitoring features. Outside of work he pursues recreational math and algorithmic puzzles, reflecting a persistent curiosity that fuels practical, elegant system designs.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Computer Science and Mathematics, Diploma Computer Science and Mathematics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
English, German
Github Skills (6)
c1710
shared-memory10
c1110
opendds10
multithreading10
qos9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
eclipse-cyclonedds/cyclonedds
Mar 2021 - May 2022
Eclipse Cyclone DDS project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:95 reviews, 88 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Matthias's contributions primarily involve the implementation of a shared memory monitoring thread within the Eclipse Cyclone DDS project. They have added functionality for monitoring shared memory communication, including attaching and detaching readers to a waitset and handling data received through shared memory. The user's work focuses on enabling the use of shared memory for zero-copy data transfer and adapting code to use an iceoryx listener. The user is working to integrate shared memory transfer with reliable QoS settings.
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MatthiasKillat/iceoryx
Mar 2020 - Aug 2022
iceoryx project
Contributions:67 pushes, 22 branches in 2 years 4 months
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