Santiago Martinez
Robot Software Engineer at Nature Robots
Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSantiago Martinez is a robot software engineer with 8 years of experience blending academic rigor and applied research in rehabilitation robotics and agricultural automation. He holds a Dr.-Ing. in rehabilitation robotics and an M.Sc. in Information and Automation Engineering, and has led development of planning libraries, control architectures, and ROS-enabled tools in C++, Python and MQTT/protobuf. At DFKI he designed software for optimal route planning in arable farming and integrated unified planning frameworks, while earlier work built novel robot-assisted gait rehabilitation systems with low-level CAN/EtherCAT control. Now based in Germany and working at Nature Robots, he brings a rare combination of hands-on embedded control, high-level planning, and GUI development (Qt) that bridges research prototypes to production-ready robotic systems. Colleagues rely on him for interdisciplinary project leadership and pragmatic engineering that turns complex robotics research into deployable solutions.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Dr.-Ing., Rehabilitation robotics, Magna Cum Laude, Dr.-Ing., Rehabilitation robotics, Magna Cum Laude at University of BremenBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics Engineering, 4.44/5.00, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics Engineering, 4.44/5.00 at Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería Julio GaravitoMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Information and Automation Engineering, 1.8 [German system], Master of Science (M.Sc.), Information and Automation Engineering, 1.8 [German system] at Universität Bremen
Spanish, English, German
Github Skills (27)
gazebo-simulator8
ros8
driver8
ignition8
gazebosim8
simulation7
robotics7
rest7
parsing7
robot-simulator7
api7
robotics-simulation7
rest-api7
api-documentation6
robot6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
DFKI-NI/arolib
Sep 2021 - Jan 2025
Contributions:6 pushes in 3 years 4 months
focke-85/gazebo_ros_pkgs
Nov 2017 - Feb 2018
Wrappers, tools and additional API's for using ROS with Gazebo
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 months
gazeboapiroboticsrobotics-simulationignition
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