Valentin Sawadski
Chief Technology Officer at Vamo
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolValentin Sawadski is a Munich-based CTO and technology entrepreneur with 12 years of experience leading product and engineering teams in IoT, hardware and cloud-backed services. He currently serves as Chief Technology Officer and board member/angel investor at Vamo and as Project Leader for OpenDataCam, blending climate-focused product strategy with open-source computer vision work. A co-founder of tado and former CTO of ProGlove, he pairs executive leadership with deep hands-on embedded systems expertise—evidenced by low-level contributions to the Contiki OS (network stack refactors, CTIMER API extensions) and backend integrations of YOLO for OpenDataCam. Trained in mathematics and informatics at TUM, Valentin is known for refactoring and hardening complex codebases, moving fluidly between firmware-level engineering and high-level product strategy.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Informatics, Master of Science - MS, Informatics at Technical University MunichBachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics at TU Munich
English, German
Github Skills (17)
javascript10
node-js10
c1110
c1710
iot10
javascripts10
sys10
embedded10
csv-export9
ip9
tcp9
ipv69
darknet9
computer-vision9
code-formatting8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
opendatacam/opendatacam
Aug 2020 - Sep 2022
An open source tool to quantify the world
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 27 reviews, 305 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Valentin contributed to the project by fixing an issue in the CSV export functionality, ensuring that headers were included in the exported files. They also refactored the YOLO component, passing it as a dependency to allow for different implementations, and refactored and enhanced the YOLO simulation capabilities, including handling video frames from different sources. Further work involved refactoring code, renaming components, and making improvements to the logging and state management.
jetsonjetson-nanosmart-citypythonjetson-xavier
contiki-os/contiki
Nov 2014 - Oct 2015
The official git repository for Contiki, the open source OS for the Internet of Things
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 12 PRs, 79 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Valentin primarily contributed to the Contiki-OS project, focusing on low-level system modifications and improvements. Their work includes adding a script for automatic code formatting, extending the CTIMER API for better process management, and refactoring packet input within the TCP/IP stack. The user also addressed IPv4-mapped address printing, updated IP64 fallback interfaces, and made other miscellaneous bug fixes.
contikigit-repositoryinfinibandcommunicationsdac
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