Sandro Meier

Deploying robots to real world construction sites!

Dietikon / Im Berg, Zurich, Switzerland

About

Software Engineer with an interest in high level optimization and planning for swarms of robots. Motivated by bridging the gap between research and commercialization. Likes to work in diverse teams to achieve goals by collaborating with others. Graduated from ETH Zurich in Summer 2019 with a degree in Robotics, Systems and Control.

Experience

  • Gravis Robotics (Full-time · 3 yrs 1 mo)
    • Platform Team Lead
      Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

      Building the robust, reliable and highly available robotic platform the Gravis system builds on top of by enabling the team members to work effectively with pragmatic best practices and the right tools. Establishing best practices around software engineering and software packaging & deployment company wide by introdcuing them in the platform team and spreading it across the company.

    • Senior Robotics Engineer
      Jun 2023 - Sep 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Developing high quality software subsystems end to end in C++23 and Python >3.11 using state of the art software development principles. Specifically around configuration management, inter-machine communication, external APIs, real time communication & networking.

  • Co Founder at FidelisFactory
    2011 - Present · 15 yrs 6 mos

    Design, implementation, operation and marketing of iOS applications and back-end services for clients and in-house. Currently main focus on iOS application "PlusPoints - Notenrechner" which was downloaded over 200'000 times in Switzerland.

  • Software Engineer at Google
    Jun 2022 - Jun 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Consultant at McKinsey & Company
    Nov 2021 - May 2022 · 7 mos

  • Software Engineer / Drone Choreographer at Verity
    Feb 2020 - Jul 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

    Working as a Software Engineer close with the Hardware and Electronics Team to streamline the manufacturing and deploying of drones to warehouses. Also working on cutting edge technology to enable swarms of drones to fly alongside Drake, Céline Dion and Metallica on stage.