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kalm.ar
Hi, I'm Robert.
Engineer, integrator, maker.
Automotive CS Avionics CS Embedded Systems System Architecture Safety-Critical SW Hardware Formula Student Team Lead HV Systems · DGUV 3E
Germany
Currently student
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About

I study automotive and avionics computer science, the space where hardware meets software and neither quite behaves. What draws me in is integration: getting a complicated system to actually talk to itself, chasing down the fault that only appears under load, the moment everything finally clicks.

Most of my real education happened in Formula Student. As Driverless Chief, I led the team that turned our autonomous concept into a working system and drove it at an official competition for the first time. Later I ran the full electronics side as Electronics Chief, covering ECU software, electrical architecture, and a 15-person team, under the kind of deadlines where things reliably go wrong at once. That's the environment I seem to work best in.

Outside of that, I race for the team and build my own tooling at home. Increasingly I use AI to write exactly the software I want rather than adapting something off the shelf, small, opinionated tools that run on my own hardware. That's where Kronos and a few other projects came from. I'm generally more interested in how things fit together than in any single discipline.

Projects
Project
Kronos — Task Management System
Vikunja-based task system with Pomodoro, deadline tracking, and hour estimation. An LLM assigns priorities and automatically generates Google Calendar blocks — so your day plans itself.
Project
Digital Analog Clock
A bedside clock that looks analog but thinks digitally. Stepper motor for smooth hand movement, GPS for atomic accuracy, a glockenspiel key as alarm — warm and unhurried.
Open Source
Private
Projects
More Projects here — github.com/pizzarobi ↗
Experience
Experience
Formula
Student
Schanzer Racing Electric
2024
Driverless Chief
  • First ever autonomous drive at an official Formula Student event for Schanzer Racing Electric
  • Integrated DV hardware into SRe22 (test mule) and SRe24 (competition car)
  • Worked on the full autonomous system architecture design
  • Wrote Autonomous System Brake software and other safety-critical components
StackROS2 (Py · C++) · Embedded C · CANoe · CANape · Linux · Git
2025
Electronics Chief · Driver
  • Full responsibility for electrical system and all ECU software
  • Rewrote display stack; introduced new data analysis tooling
  • Diagnosed and resolved complex issues in the car, LV & HV system
  • High Voltage responsible — DGUV 3E certified
  • Managing 15+ person team, scheduling and cross-department coordination
  • Moderation of the SRe25 Rollout and frequent Social Media presence
StackMATLAB · Simulink · dSPACE · GTK4 · KiCad