Roberto Aldera
Software Engineer at Thinkst Applied Research
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolRoberto Aldera is a software engineer based in Cape Town with five years of hands-on experience building robotics and security-focused systems, currently contributing at Thinkst Applied Research. He brings a strong mechatronics and robotics foundation from a BSc (Eng) and doctoral studies at Oxford, coupled with practical field experience at Oxbotica and the Oxford Robotics Institute. His background spans control systems for bio-inspired robotics to production software for autonomous vehicles, reflecting a blend of research rigor and product-driven engineering. At Thinkst he combines that robotics mindset with security engineering, an uncommon cross-domain perspective that helps bridge physical systems thinking and secure software design.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - DPhil, Information Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - DPhil, Information Engineering at University of OxfordBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at University of Cape TownThe Episcopal AcademyMatric, National Senior Certificate, Matric, National Senior Certificate at Bishops Diocesan College
Afrikaans, English
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Github Skills (18)
unit-testing10
scales10
pytest10
python10
testing10
functional-testing10
api8
console7
honeypot6
cryptography6
security6
modular6
cybersecurity5
euler5
weather-data4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
roberto-aldera/project-euler
Mar 2021 - Oct 2022
Attempts at solving Project Euler problems in different languages.
Contributions:42 commits, 2 PRs, 41 pushes in 1 year 7 months
pythonsolvingeulerproblemslanguages
roberto-aldera/not-just-pasta
Aug 2022 - Feb 2025
A web-based recipe book :spaghetti: :book:
Contributions:12 PRs, 36 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 7 months
recipe-bookrecipesrecipespaghettiweb-based
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