Ralf Meermeier
Senior Software Engineer at QPS Engineering AG
Basel Metropolitan Area Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolRalf Meermeier is a Senior Software Engineer with over 20 years of experience specializing in C++ and Python for ML on resource-constrained edge devices, with deep expertise in quantized models and hardware-aware model conversion. He has led teams and acted as a technical manager—most recently steering ML integration, CI/CD and customer-facing R&D at iRobot—and now contributes to embedded and robotics projects in the Basel area. His background spans audio and vision ML, low-latency on-device ASR systems, and robotics software (ROS, path planning, custom hardware prototyping), reflecting a rare blend of algorithmic, systems and hands-on mechanical design skills. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions to platform-specific constraints, translating cutting-edge ML into dependable real-world products.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Electrical Engineering, Masters Electrical Engineering at University of Duisburg-Essen
English, German
Github Skills (45)
python10
machine-learning10
ml10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
deep-neural-networks10
neural-network10
json-parser9
java9
serialization9
android-app9
protobuf9
grpc9
rust8
rpc8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
threebrooks/AdafruitStepperMotorHAT_CPP
May 2021 - Jul 2022
Port of the Adafruit Python Stepper Motor HAT library to C++
Contributions:6 commits, 7 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 3 months
adafruitcpppython
threebrooks/Godec
Jun 2019 - Sep 2020
A C++ runtime engine for connecting data processing modules (specifically NLP modules)
Contributions:2 PRs, 402 pushes, 36 branches in 1 year 3 months
nlpcode-generationdata-processingruntimemachine-learning
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