Rian Kucera
Principal Software Engineer at Solenix
Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
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Top SchoolRian Kucera is a Principal Software Engineer based in Darmstadt with 11 years of professional experience blending aerospace-grade analytical rigor and hands-on software delivery. Trained as an aerospace engineer with deep grounding in mathematics, physics and estimation theory, he has specialized in robotics, automation and real-time systems while working extensively with Java, C++ and ROS. A test-driven, agile practitioner, Rian has progressed through senior technical and leadership roles at Solenix and earlier contributed industry-facing aviation and HR tooling as a consultant and engineer. As co-founder and CTO of Foove he built a hybrid recommendation engine and real-time big-data processing platform for the festival industry, demonstrating an ability to turn research-grade ideas into user-facing products. He pairs startup founding experience with corporate engineering leadership, making him equally comfortable shipping production systems and designing algorithmic solutions for complex sensing and automation problems.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
High-school Technological and natural sciences, High-school Technological and natural sciences at Johan van Oldebarnevelt Gymnasium, AmersfoortMaster of Science (MSc) Space Science & Technology, Master of Science (MSc) Space Science & Technology at Aalto UniversityMaster of Science (MSc) Space Science & Technology, Master of Science (MSc) Space Science & Technology at Luleå University of TechnologyBachelor of Science (BSc) Aerospace Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology
English, German, Dutch, Czech
Github Skills (23)
simulate9
planetary9
unity3d8
entity8
simulation7
extension-methods7
code-generation7
ray6
design-patterns6
csharp6
tdd6
entity-component5
entity-component-system5
game-development5
csharp-code5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rvangijlswijk/ionospheric-ray-tracer
Jan 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:1 release, 188 commits, 6 PRs in 9 months
rayplanetarymethodtracingsimulation
AaltoSpace/ionospheric-ray-tracer
Dec 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:15 pushes in 7 months
rayplanetarymethodtracingsimulation
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