Tim Clephas
Robotics Engineer at Nobleo
Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Clephas is a seasoned robotics engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience making existing machines autonomous, blending mechatronics, embedded systems and software for mobile platforms on land and water. Based in Eindhoven, he leads electrical and software integration at Nobleo Technology and has a track record modernizing ROS ecosystems—porting ROS1 features to ROS2 and improving state estimation, GPS drivers (including RTK support) and point-cloud tooling in well-known repos like robot_localization and rtabmap_ros. His background spans control engineering for automotive CVT actuation, precision mechatronics at ASML, and practical field integration, giving him a rare combination of low-level firmware, system architecture and test-driven development. Colleagues rely on him to bridge hardware-software gaps, refactor legacy code for modern robotics stacks, and add pragmatic diagnostics and testing that keep systems robust in real-world deployments.
15 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Dendron CollegeMechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at University of CanterburyBsc, Mechanical Engineering, Bsc, Mechanical Engineering at Eindhoven University of TechnologyDe DobbelsteenMsc, Mechanical Engineering, Msc, Mechanical Engineering at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Dutch, English, German
Github Skills (8)
gps10
embedded10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
sys10
ros10
point-cloud8
testing7
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
KumarRobotics/ublox
Jul 2019 - Oct 2021
A driver for ublox gps
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:1 review, 15 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tim's contributions center around the `ublox` repository, a driver for ublox GPS devices. They made changes to the core driver code, including diagnostic messages and RTK support via rtcm. Furthermore, the user modified the CHANGELOG files, reflecting version updates and new features like support for the ZED-F9P RELPOSNED message and added dynamic model bike.
driverubloxublox-gpsgarmingps
cra-ros-pkg/robot_localization
Dec 2019 - May 2021
robot_localization is a package of nonlinear state estimation nodes. The package was developed by Charles River Analytics, Inc. Please ask questions on answers.ros.org.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 12 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily focused on porting ROS1 features and integrating them into the ROS2 environment, as evidenced by the updates in `navsat_transform.cpp`. They also contributed to the implementation of the UTM zone service, which provides the ability to configure the UTM zone of the robot. Additionally, the user refactored the codebase, specifically the navsat_conversions.hpp and related files, and added several tests to the project.
charlesanalyticsrivernonlinearnodes
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