Valentin Sawadski
Chief Technology Officer at Valentin Sawadski
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolValentin Sawadski is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Munich with 12 years of experience building and scaling hardware-software products and engineering teams. He co-founded tado and later served as CTO at ProGlove, combining product-led engineering with operational leadership and interim/board roles at climate-focused startups like Vamo. Valentin contributes to open source—working on projects such as OpenDataCam (improving CSV exports and YOLO simulation) and Contiki OS (low-level networking and IoT refinements)—highlighting a rare blend of embedded systems and back-end expertise. He runs a consulting and coaching practice that helps tech leads and engineering teams with strategy, org design, and hands-on delivery. With an MSc in Informatics and a BSc in Mathematics from TUM, he pairs rigorous technical foundations with a pragmatic, impact-driven approach. An understated strength is his ability to refactor complex legacy systems into modular, testable components that accelerate product iteration.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Informatics, Master of Science - MS Informatics at Technical University of Munich
English, German
Github Skills (16)
c1710
iot10
embedded10
javascript10
nodejs10
c1110
sys10
tcp9
csv-export9
ipv69
darknet9
ip9
computer-vision9
bash8
git8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
opendatacam/opendatacam
Aug 2020 - Sep 2022
An open source tool to quantify the world
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 27 reviews, 305 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Valentin contributed to the project by fixing an issue in the CSV export functionality, ensuring that headers were included in the exported files. They also refactored the YOLO component, passing it as a dependency to allow for different implementations, and refactored and enhanced the YOLO simulation capabilities, including handling video frames from different sources. Further work involved refactoring code, renaming components, and making improvements to the logging and state management.
jetsonjetson-nanosmart-citypythonjetson-xavier
contiki-os/contiki
Nov 2014 - Oct 2015
The official git repository for Contiki, the open source OS for the Internet of Things
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 12 PRs, 79 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Valentin primarily contributed to the Contiki-OS project, focusing on low-level system modifications and improvements. Their work includes adding a script for automatic code formatting, extending the CTIMER API for better process management, and refactoring packet input within the TCP/IP stack. The user also addressed IPv4-mapped address printing, updated IP64 fallback interfaces, and made other miscellaneous bug fixes.
contikigit-repositoryinfinibandcommunicationsdac
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