Raphael Tessmer
Senior Robotics Engineer at BrightAI
Pasadena, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRaphael Tessmer is a Senior Robotics Engineer in Pasadena with a decade of experience building real-time robot control and machine learning systems for aerospace and industry. He has led robotics and controls teams at OffWorld and now drives robotics work at BrightAI, combining hands-on control engineering with reinforcement learning and perception. His projects include Rust-based planetary data pipelines and crater-detection ML models for space exploration, reflecting a rare blend of systems programming and scientific ML. Raphael’s background spans JPL thesis work, industrial RL for robot behaviors, and embodied AI at product-focused startups, so he moves fluidly between research prototypes and production-grade architectures. Colleagues describe him as an engineer who pairs rigorous academic training from TUM with pragmatic software craftsmanship to deliver autonomy solutions in high-stakes environments.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Robotics, Cognition, Intelligence, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Robotics, Cognition, Intelligence at Technical University of MunichBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
German, English, Chinese
Github Skills (200)
api10
fonts10
font-awesome10
python10
mod-manager10
gnome-shell10
serial-port10
desktop-application10
robot10
todoist9
powerline9
vala9
statusline9
3d9
vim9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
ruffson/druid
Oct 2020 - Jan 2024
A data-first Rust-native UI design toolkit.
Contributions:18 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 2 months
reactrustnative-uirust-nativeui-design
ruffson/dotfiles
Jul 2019 - Jul 2025
Contributions:152 pushes, 9 branches in 6 years 1 month
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