Timo Röhling
Research Assistant at Fraunhofer FKIE
Cologne Bonn Region Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolTimo Röhling is a research-focused software engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in autonomous mobile robots and AI, currently a Research Assistant at Fraunhofer FKIE in the Cologne–Bonn region. He combines deep systems-level C++ expertise with practical security knowledge, having contributed fixes and OpenSSL compatibility work to Fast-DDS and stability improvements to Cyclone DDS. An active Debian Developer and steady open-source maintainer, Timo has improved build, packaging and cross-platform compatibility in high-profile projects like Open3D and ROS image_pipeline. His work tends to concentrate on robustness and integration—resolving threading, build system and architecture-specific issues—making him a go-to engineer for hard-to-reproduce CI and deployment problems.
13 years of coding experience
Diplom, Computer Science, Diplom, Computer Science at The University of Bonn
German, English
Github Skills (30)
opencv10
c-language10
image-processing10
build-system10
cmake10
c1110
networking10
security-protocol10
c1710
cplus10
openssl10
3d10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
opendds10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
isl-org/Open3D
Apr 2020 - Nov 2022
Open3D: A Modern Library for 3D Data Processing
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 9 commits, 13 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Timo primarily contributes to the Open3D library by addressing build and packaging issues, fixing typos, and refactoring the CMake build system. They modified existing code to improve the documentation build process, ensuring compatibility with non-Git source trees. Additionally, the user updated ImGui function calls, fixed build issues, and added system library options for third-party dependencies. The contributions focused on improving the build, packaging, and integration of the library.
python3d-perceptionodometrytensorflowpointcloud
ros-perception/image_pipeline
Jun 2018 - Sep 2021
An image processing pipeline for ROS.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 9 comments in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Timo primarily focused on resolving OpenCV-related issues within the image processing pipeline. Their contributions involved implementing workarounds for threading and GTK-related bugs, addressing mutex assertion failures during shutdown, and ensuring compatibility with different ROS versions. They also made adjustments to the timing mechanisms used within the GUI and fixed an issue within an image nodelet.
pythonpipelineprocessing-pipelinec-plus-plusimage-processing
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