Philipp Gorczak

Research And Development Specialist at catskill GmbH

Hamburg, Germany
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Philipp Gorczak is a Research and Development Specialist with 13 years of experience building embodied systems that bring situated intelligence to real-world machines, currently focused on making ships smarter at catskill GmbH. His background spans maritime search and rescue, rescue robotics, and industrial automation, where he implemented force-sensitive motor skills and composed them into higher-level programs for complex assembly. He has deep expertise in reliable communication and monitoring for drones and robots, human-robot interfaces, and networked systems that keep operations robust under messy real-world conditions. Philipp favors distributed systems and functional programming to manage complexity, a practice that shows up in both research prototypes and deployed operational tooling. Based in Hamburg, he combines academic rigor from TU Dortmund with hands-on lab and field experience at Fraunhofer and DGzRS, enabling rapid iteration from prototype to mission-capable systems. An under-the-radar strength is his focus on composability—designing robot behaviors and communication stacks so pieces can be reused and recombined across domains.
code13 years of coding experience
job10 years of employment as a software developer
bookMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at TU Dortmund University
languagesGerman, English
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Github Skills (184)

px410
lte10
rover10
ros10
autopilot10
mavlink10
wireless10
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csv10
4g10
drones10
software-defined-radio10
lists10
qgroundcontrol10
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Programming languages (9)

TypeScriptC++CCMakeJavaScriptPuppetPythonClojure

Github contributions (5)

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pgorczak/ansible-role-ros

Nov 2016 - Jan 2019

An Ansible role for provisioning ROS machines.
Contributions:2 releases, 12 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 2 months
provisioningmachinesnetwork-automationansibleros
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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Philipp Gorczak - Research And Development Specialist at catskill GmbH