Sebastian Rockel
Software Development Engineer (R&D) at Jungheinrich AG
Norderstedt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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Top SchoolSebastian Rockel is a Software Development Engineer (R&D) based in Norderstedt, Germany with 15 years of experience building embedded systems, robotics, and AI-driven perception for industrial vehicles and service robots. He holds a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence and has led technology studies and machine learning, localization, and data-science initiatives at Jungheinrich, applying research-grade methods to production autonomous systems. Prior roles include ADAS development, EU-funded robotics research coordination, and low-level firmware and energy-management work at semiconductor firms, giving him rare end-to-end expertise from hardware drivers to high-level behavior planning. He combines academic rigor with hands-on systems integration, supervising theses and organizing major robotics events, and often bridges simulation, sensor fusion, and real-world deployment. An unassuming thread through his career is a knack for turning advanced algorithms into robust, tested features for mobile platforms in industrial contexts.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. (Dr.), Artificial Intelligence, Ph.D. (Dr.), Artificial Intelligence at University of HamburgBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon OhmMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Universität Hamburg
German, English, French
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Github Skills (23)
sdk9
hardware8
intel7
hierarchical7
quaternions7
payment-methods7
in-app-purchase7
computer-vision7
ros6
geometric6
transform5
dynamics5
bullet5
robotics5
camera-api5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
buzzer/JadexPlayer
Nov 2010 - Feb 2011
Contributions:16 commits in 2 months
buzzer/bib
Feb 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:32 pushes, 2 tags in 9 months
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