Roland Philippsen
Chief Product Officer at EthonAI
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolRoland Philippsen is a Chief Product Officer and former roboticist with 15 years of experience turning advanced research into customer-facing products, now leading product at EthonAI to help manufacturers detect and prevent quality loss at scale. He blends academic rigor from a PhD at EPFL and roles at Stanford, ETH Zurich and Willow Garage with hands-on startup experience at Applied Intuition and X (the moonshot factory), moving quickly from MVP to market. As an engineering leader he has grown teams, mentored engineers, secured funding, and repeatedly bridged customer needs with technical execution. Comfortable wearing multiple hats, he pairs whole-body robotics and motion-planning expertise with product strategy and AI-driven matching in talent platforms. Based in Zurich, he advises FOUND and brings a pattern of translating deep robotics know-how into practical industrial and software solutions. Colleagues describe him as a lifelong learner who applies Silicon Valley practices to make complex systems accessible and product-ready.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Microengineering, PhD Microengineering at EPFL
German, English, French, Spanish, German
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Github Skills (16)
robotics8
ros8
tcp5
ipc5
udp5
paths4
creative-commons3
linux3
macos3
searching3
protobuf3
xpath2
python2
pubsub2
planning1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
poftwaresatent/minitao
Apr 2015 - Mar 2021
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 6 years
poftwaresatent/dt8014
Sep 2013 - Nov 2014
Contributions:63 commits in 1 year 2 months
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