Vojtech Spurny
Head Of Software Department at Fly4Future
Prague, Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolVojtech Spurny is a Head of Software Department and researcher with over a decade of hands-on experience designing autonomy for unmanned aerial vehicles, bridging academic rigor and product-focused R&D. He leads multi-disciplinary software teams at Fly4Future, driving project lifecycle delivery, proposal writing, and continuous innovation in UAV autonomy. His PhD in Biocybernetics and Artificial Intelligence underpins a track record of motion-planning research, supervision of theses, and teaching at CTU Prague, while he concurrently manages industrial R&D programs. Known as a collaborative mentor and practical scientist, he scales research prototypes into deployable drone systems and optimizes internal workflows. Based in Prague, he combines a passion for sport and family with a knack for translating complex multi-robot concepts into robust engineering solutions. An under-the-radar strength is his consistent role spanning both deep academic research and executive-level project governance, enabling rapid technology transfer from lab to field.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Summer School - Aerospace Information Technology, Summer School - Aerospace Information Technology at Julius-Maximilians-Universität WürzburgPh.D., Biocybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, Ph.D., Biocybernetics and Artificial Intelligence at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in PragueAutomatization, Automatization at Střední průmyslová škola a Vyšší odborná škola Chomutov
Czech, English
Github Skills (73)
ros10
ros-node10
robotics10
autonomous-robots10
transformation10
model-predictive-control10
tmux10
simulation10
fusion10
i310
gazebo-simulator10
linux9
sensor9
sensor-fusion9
controller9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tiiuae/rplidar_ros2
May 2021 - Nov 2022
2D Laser Scanner (LIDAR) ROS node. Broadcasts each scan result into a ROS topic.
Contributions:3 reviews, 10 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 6 months
lidarrosros-node
tiiuae/control_interface
May 2021 - Mar 2023
For interaction between low-level Pixhawk and higher level of control, ROS node based on MavSDK
Contributions:7 PRs, 6 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 9 months
ros-node
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