Patrick Spieler
Robotics Technologist at Caltech
Pasadena, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Spieler is a robotics technologist with 12 years of hands-on experience bridging aerospace-grade systems and consumer robotics, currently working at NASA JPL and serving as Design Lead at Caltech. He holds a Master's in Robotics (minor in Space Technology) from EPFL and cut his teeth on electronics, embedded systems, and satellite test automation during a nanosatellite thesis at Astrocast. A multi-year Eurobot competitor and co-founder of a robotics consultancy, he combines practical skills in motor controllers, CAN bus, sensor fusion (Kalman filters), and vision with systems-level integration and automated verification. Based in Pasadena, he brings the pragmatism of a field engineer to research environments, often turning contest-hardened autonomy into lab-grade, deployable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Major in Robotics and Autonomous Systems; Minor in Space Technology, Master’s Degree Major in Robotics and Autonomous Systems; Minor in Space Technology at EPFLHigh-school Physics and Applied Mathematics, High-school Physics and Applied Mathematics at Kantonsschule Wohlen
German, English, French, German
Github Skills (102)
chibios10
can-bus10
meta10
robot10
robotics9
bootloader9
imu9
operating-system9
ros9
capistrano9
connected8
embedded8
bots8
gps8
gocd8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Stapelzeiger/adcs
Sep 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:75 commits, 39 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
Stapelzeiger/sensor-drivers
Apr 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 years 1 month
driverssensorchibios
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