Nikolaas Bender
Software Engineer at Charles River Analytics
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNikolaas Bender is a software engineer specializing in field and mobile robotics, blending a BA in Computer Science from CU Boulder with ongoing MS work in ECE at UC Santa Cruz focused on precision agriculture. With nine years of experience across research and industry, he has led multi-sensor fusion and radar mapping efforts for autonomous vehicles and now builds applied robotics solutions at Charles River Analytics. Nikolaas thrives on moving robotics out of the lab into the real world, pairing hands-on systems development with a pragmatic focus on safety and operator monitoring. He has practical backend and deployment experience from internships (Python/Django, C#, SQL, containers, CI/CD) that helps him bridge research prototypes to production-ready systems. An avid cyclist and racer since 2013, he brings the same endurance and curiosity from the trails to complex engineering challenges.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at UCSC Baskin School of EngineeringBachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (19)
marble5
san5
azerothcore4
ros4
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robotics3
simulation3
gazebosim3
user-interface2
keyboard2
controller2
station2
trello2
administrator2
management2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NikolaasBender/NikolaasBender.github.io
Nov 2018 - Apr 2023
Contributions:43 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
NikolaasBender/BumbleBot
Oct 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:34 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
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