Work

A decade across collaborative robotics, control systems, and R&D leadership, year by year.

• 2026 →

  Principal Systems Consultant

  Independent·Remote

  End-to-end development and strategic advisory at the synthesis of high-performance robotics, HCI, and local-first AI. Building sylab: open-source, local-first lab orchestration. Active alpha-client engagements.

  Independent Robotics Local-first AI
• 2021-22

  Agile Robots AG

  Innovation Team Lead ← Senior Robotics Engineer·Munich

  Innovation Team Lead·Jul – Dec 2022

  Recruited a new specialised team and guided technical demos at the intersection of robotics, MR, and HRI.

  Robot Software·Jan 2021 – Jun 2022

  Robot control system development, hardware-in-the-loop testing, simulation-driven tuning, and internal test harnesses for manipulators and actuators.

  Robotics R&D lead HRI
• 2016-20

  Franka Emika

  Senior Robotics Engineer·Core founding team·Munich

  Advanced Control & Manipulation·2018 – 20

  Contributed to advanced dual-arm control systems used as research platforms, and supported control frameworks for humanoid prototypes. Designed and implemented a custom control system for Aescape (2019): high-fidelity replay of position and force trajectories, with integrated safety for high-contact HRI.

  R&D·2016 – 17

  Led a Service Robotics R&D team on innovative strategies and prototypes; mentored interns on autonomous mobile platforms and modular service robotics.

  Deutscher Zukunftspreis 2017·Time Best Inventions 2018
  Founding Service robotics Dual-arm Aescape
• 2014-16

  KBee AG

  Robot Control Engineer·Core founding team·Munich

  Core control and safety layers for the lightweight, force-sensitive collaborative arm that became the Panda (Franka): dynamic models and control algorithms, intuitive pHRI frameworks, and technical demonstrations with academic and industrial partners.

  Founding Control pHRI
• 2013-14

  Research internships

  MSc thesis·Munich & Genoa

  Kastanienbaum GmbH·Feb – Aug 2014

  MSc thesis under Prof. Sami Haddadin: safety-based planning and control.

  Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia·Jul – Sep 2013

  Real-time gait planning for the COMAN humanoid under Dr. Petar Kormushev: Simulink to C++ and on-robot validation.

  Research Safety Humanoid
• 2008-12

  Teaching & early industry

  The German University in Cairo·ABB·Festo Didactic

  Graduate and undergraduate teaching assistant at GUC across control engineering (Prof. Ayman El Badawy), electrohydraulics, electric circuits, Java programming, and CAD. Industry internships at ABB (process control: PLCs, motor drives) and Festo Didactic (industrial automation: PLC, pneumatics, hydraulics, CNC).

  Academia Automation