Dirk Thomas Email & Phone Number

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Mountain View, California, Us

* The technical lead for the ROS 2 project* Lead a team if engineers using an agile process, released six ROS 2 distributions from Ardent to Foxy with a string focus on high quality* Authored and implemented more than a dozen ROS Enhancement Proposals, deployed them after community revision* Made numerous key design decisions for ROS 2* Architectures & implemented several ROS 2 subsystems: build system, resource index, message definition, language specific code generators, ROS middleware interface, command line interface framework including completion, bridge between ROS 1 and ROS 2* Contribute to projects with various clients, represented Open Robotics for most of them* Write design and user documentation for ROS 2* Review pull requests from coworkers and external contributors* Maintain most of ROS 1 core and rqt packages for seven ROS 1 distributions from Hydro to Noetic, including the migration to Python 3* Designed and implemented the Jenkins-based ROS build infrastructure, one of the largest scale deployments of Jenkins with tens of thousands of jobs* Represented Open Robotics at several international conferences

Mountain View, California, Us

* The technical lead for the ROS 2 project* Lead a team if engineers using an agile process, released six ROS 2 distributions from Ardent to Foxy with a string focus on high quality* Authored and implemented more than a dozen ROS Enhancement Proposals, deployed them after community revision* Made numerous key design decisions for ROS 2* Architectures & implemented several ROS 2 subsystems: build system, resource index, message definition, language specific code generators, ROS middleware interface, command line interface framework including completion, bridge between ROS 1 and ROS 2* Contribute to projects with various clients, represented Open Robotics for most of them* Write design and user documentation for ROS 2* Review pull requests from coworkers and external contributors* Maintain most of ROS 1 core and rqt packages for seven ROS 1 distributions from Hydro to Noetic, including the migration to Python 3* Designed and implemented the Jenkins-based ROS build infrastructure, one of the largest scale deployments of Jenkins with tens of thousands of jobs* Represented Open Robotics at several international conferences

Menlo Park, Us

* Designed, developed and rolled out the CMake-based build system catkin including developer and user documentation* Release engineering for the ROS 1 distributions Fuerte and Groovy Galapagos* Developed and maintainer the ROS 1 base packages, including the ROS client APIs in C++ and Python* Developed and maintainer the Qt-based graphical ROS tools "rqt"

Darmstadt, Hessen, De

* Robotic middleware design* Efficient communication mechanisms* Participate in the RoboCup Humanoid League* Teaching Robotics courses and training master students

* Business development and requirement engineering with customers* Managed a team of designers and software developers* Software architecture, design and implementation of web applications in PHP 5* Web Application Development with Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP* Web frontend development in HTML & JavaScript as well as ActionScript* Server administration (FreeBSD)