André Esser
Senior Robotics Engineer @Ocado Technology
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Robotics Engineer @Ocado Technology
Welwyn Garden City, GB
Developing On Grid Robotic Pick (OGRP). Writing code for a robotic arm system to pack groceries. Leveraging my extensive software development experience to improve and accelerate the software development pipeline at Ocado. Getting quality code into production faster. Main activities include- Writing key features in Golang and Python- Coaching robotics developers to write production level code (highly maintainable and testable)- Accelerating the software development pipeline by introducing system wide engineering standards- Creating a full CI/CD robotics software pipeline with automated testing (unit, integration and e2e tests)- Integrating robotics and Machine Learning algorithms into a production codebase- Monitoring robotic systems in production with Datadog using logs, metrics and distributed tracingMain Technologies Used- Python and Golang for writing code- Docker and terraform for deployments- Gitlab CI/CD pipelines- GRPC as communication protocol- OpenTelemetry for monitoring
EDUCATION
Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
Master's degree, Telecomunications and Informatics
Speakwell / British Council
CAE (Certificate in Advanced English), English Language and Literature, General
Goethe Institute in Portugal
B2 Certification, German
SKILLS
ABOUT ANDRÉ ESSER
Experienced software engineer specializing in creating highly scalable and maintainable code in microservice architectures. I\'m passionate about developing software efficiently and therefor focus in accelerating software development pipelines by streamlining all phases of the software development cycle (writing code, testing code, CI/CD, monitoring). With a strong background in cloud development, I leverage platforms like Google Cloud and Azure to build robust and highly scalable scalable applications. Passionate about mentoring and coaching teams as I know that my contributions as a single developer are limited, but as a team they are limitless.Continuously learning and sharing my experience on YouTube:
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