Yannik Nager
Team Lead Perception at Hexagon Robotics
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolYannik Nager is a perception and robotics leader with 8 years of experience building machine learning and computer vision systems for autonomous vehicles and mobile robots. Currently Team Lead Perception at Hexagon Robotics, he progressed from hands-on robotics and ML engineering to head-of-AI and tech lead roles, shipping production perception stacks and guiding teams through deployment challenges. An ETH Zürich-trained roboticist with experience across startups and research-driven projects, he blends motion planning, control and perception expertise with practical C++ and systems engineering. Notably, he led development of a CYBATHLON-participating exoskeleton at VariLeg, demonstrating his ability to translate advanced research into real-world assistive robotics.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) ETH Robotics Systems and Control, Master of Science (MSc) ETH Robotics Systems and Control at ETH ZürichMaster of Science (MSc) ETH Robotics Systems and Control, Master of Science (MSc) ETH Robotics Systems and Control at National University of Singapore
German, English, Spanish
Github Skills (17)
robotics10
introspection10
trajectory-generation9
opc9
astar9
rospy9
motion-planning9
ros9
planning9
graph8
fsm-library8
communications8
exporter1
prometheus-exporter1
prometheus1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ynager/visual_odometry_pipeline
Nov 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:82 commits, 7 branches in 5 months
ynager/trilatEKF
Dec 2018 - Dec 2023
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
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