Sonja Brits
Technical Project Lead at Venti Technologies
Singapore, Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolSonja Brits is a technical project lead with 8 years’ experience building safety-critical systems for autonomous vehicles, from Formula Student Driverless to robotaxis and logistics platforms. She blends a strong engineering and robotics background with systems engineering and functional safety, regularly leading HARA/FMEA and designing monitoring and response layers. At Venti she scales and coaches a diverse systems team while translating customer contracts into technical milestones and driving cross-functional decisions. Sonja’s leadership emphasizes communication, empathy and tailored coaching, enabling teams to operate without micromanagement. Outside of work she channels creativity and a passion for horses into teaching and community engagement, reflecting a hands-on, people-centered approach not often visible on technical résumés.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Mechatronic Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Mechatronic Engineering at Stellenbosch UniversityMSc Robotics Systems and Control, MSc Robotics Systems and Control at ETH Zürich
English, Afrikaans, German
Stackoverflow
141reputation
15kreached
1answer
4questions
Github Skills (10)
robotics8
ros7
python7
kotlin7
alloy6
cmake6
libconfig6
rsyslog6
robot3
gazebosim2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sonjabrits/plant_game
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
sonjabrits/RimWorld-Afrikaans
May 2020 - Jun 2020
Afrikaans translation of RimWorld.
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
translationrimworld
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