Rex Schilasky
Staff Customer Engineer at Sonatus
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolRex Schilasky is a Staff Customer Engineer based in Frankfurt with seven years of focused software engineering experience in the automotive and ADAS space, and a long history driving platform and middleware initiatives at Continental. He blends deep systems-level expertise in C++, Rust, and Python with hands-on work improving high-performance communication middleware—most notably contributions to Eclipse eCAL for low-latency publish/subscribe, TCP reliability fixes, and shared-memory optimization. At Continental he led cross-functional teams building rapid prototyping, CI/CD, and runtime middleware for driverless programs, and now applies that product-focused engineering mindset to customer-facing roles. Known for translating research-grade middleware into production-capable platforms, he combines pragmatic performance tuning with strategic open-source engagement.
7 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom-Ingenieur Elektrotechnik und Elektronik, Diplom-Ingenieur Elektrotechnik und Elektronik at Technische Universität Dresden
Github Skills (13)
publish-subscribe10
ip10
middleware10
c-language10
interprocess-communication10
cprogramming-language10
ipc10
tcp10
client-server9
performance-optimization9
shared-memory9
autonomous-driving8
network-analysis8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
eclipse-ecal/ecal
Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
📦 eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer. A high performance publish-subscribe, client-server cross-plattform middleware.
Role in this project:
Back-end & System Engineer
Back-end & System EngineerContributions:15 releases, 344 reviews, 291 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Rex's contributions centered around improving the eCAL (enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer) middleware. Their work included fixing critical issues related to TCP client-server communication, and shared memory performance optimization. They also added new features, such as samples for measuring publish/subscribe latency and throughput, and integrated NPCap features for the eCAL monitor, demonstrating a focus on performance, reliability, and network analysis within the middleware.
client-servermiddlewarepublish-subscribegoogle-protobufshared-memory
eclipse-ecal/rustecal
Apr 2025 - Apr 2026
Idiomatic Rust bindings for eCAL.
Contributions:4 reviews, 92 PRs, 142 pushes in 1 year
rustclient-serverecalffiinterprocess-communication
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