Lucas Chiesa
Chief Technology Officer at Sentrisense
Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolLucas Chiesa is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 17 years of experience building robotics, embedded and systems software across startups and enterprise teams. Trained as an electrical engineer but grounded in computer science, he bridges hardware and software—leading robotics teams at Savioke and BMW's autonomous driving efforts, co-founding an IoT agriculture company, and founding a successful university robotics group. A long-time Linux power user and open-source contributor (notably improving rosjava/android_core Android support), he favors pragmatic systems programming that scales from PCB to cloud. Based in Leipzig, he combines hands-on engineering with strategic product leadership, and—when not shipping systems—pursues travel and photography, reflecting a practical curiosity that fuels both design and research.
18 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Colegio San CiranoEngineer's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Engineer's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at University of Buenos Aires
English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (10)
javas10
algorithms10
c-language10
android-sdk10
cprogramming-language10
motion-planning10
android10
java10
ui-design8
network-programming7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
rosjava/android_core
Jul 2013 - Nov 2013
Android libraries for rosjava
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:7 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Lucas implemented new features and improved the Android-specific functionality of the rosjava/android_core repository. Their work included adding an option to create a new public master in the MasterChooser and modifying the UI to accommodate this. They also added a deprecated version of the startMaster method to maintain backward compatibility. Further contributions involved simplifying the MasterChooser interface and listing network interfaces within it.
android
dreamster/dreamster-lib
Sep 2015 - Jul 2018
Arduino library for the Dreamster robot
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 10 months
arduino-library
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