Rex 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
📦 eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer. A high performance publish-subscribe, client-server cross-plattform middleware.
Role in this project:
Back-end & System Engineer
Contributions:15 releases, 337 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.
Contributions:3 releases, 20 commits, 16 pushes in 20 days
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