Michael Pöhnl
Chief Technology Officer at MP-fied Solutions
Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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RockstarMichael Pöhnl is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Stuttgart with over 6 years of documented senior experience driving middleware and real-time communication platforms across automotive and robotics domains. He led the architecture and product strategy for middleware products at Apex.AI and initiated the Eclipse iceoryx zero-copy IPC project at Bosch, bringing high-performance, deterministic communication into ROS 2 and AUTOSAR ecosystems. Known for hands-on systems work as well as management, he blends deep low-level C++ contributions (including fixes to iceoryx roudi process) with product ownership of globally distributed teams. Currently balancing CTO responsibilities at ekxide IO and middleware consulting at MP-fied Solutions, he focuses on building deterministic, scalable communication stacks for safety-critical systems. An under-the-radar strength is his track record of turning research prototypes into production middleware deployed in millions of ADAS units.
6 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (8)
shared-memory10
c-language10
interprocess-communication10
cprogramming-language10
ipc10
c-templates8
cpp-templates8
multithreading7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
eclipse-iceoryx/iceoryx
Oct 2019 - Mar 2022
Eclipse iceoryx™ - true zero-copy inter-process-communication
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 490 reviews, 242 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Michael fixed response generation for runnable creation in the `iceoryx_posh` module, specifically within the `roudi` process. They modified the `roudi_process.cpp` file to address issues in creating and acknowledging runnable instances. Further contributions included changes related to system includes and platform types in multiple header files within the `iceoryx_utils` module. The commits also included the merge of a MacOS support branch.
client-serverintereclipsecycloneddszero
budrus/iceoryx
Dec 2019 - Nov 2020
iceoryx project
Contributions:94 pushes, 26 branches in 10 months
iceoryxdocker
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