Stefan Klumpp

Siine is one of the most exciting projects currently under development in the Web 3.0 and technological innovation space. With its core focus on communications interface design, the team at Siine has created a whole new paradigm for communication and text input on touchscreen devices. Siine is revolutionizing text-based communication, radically improving the texting process for social, IM, gaming and business communication.

Summer internship in the field of Social Media Marketing and Community Development at Barcelona based start-up Linqia with the objective to extend my knowledge in business, management and marketing and to experience being part of a bustling entrepreneurial environment.

Responsible for the mobile application development of bliquo.com – a social portal for urban leisure. My work involves building the technical architecture as well as designing the user interface and functionality for applications running on iPhone and Android platforms. Bliquo has been featured in Apple's App Store in several countries, has been the "number one" app in Spain for over a week, and is one of the top applications in the Android Market with a user satisfaction rate of 4.5 out of 5 stars.

Wrote my thesis about the design and development process of an embedded system to control and communicate with a distributed high speed sensor network to measure quiescent and operating current in a vehicle. The project work included the implementation of several communication protocols (I2C, USB, CAN, SD-card).

Worked on a research project collaboration with Stanford University about estimating side slip by using computer vision. Designed a framework in C/C++ to record and synchronize camera and vehicle data. Developed a tool in Python and Qt to analyze and visualize the collected data. Developed a Linux based automotive media station in cooperation with Volkswagen Research in Tokyo, Japan. Responsible for an Open Source navigation solution by using OpenStreetMap

Member of the Stanford Racing Team (Stanford University) in the DARPA Urban Challenge 2007. Responsible for the Drive-By-Wire system and the electrical system in general. Finished 2nd out of 89 participating international university teams. Awarded with $1,000,000 which is being used for further research in that field.

Worked on various projects in the fields of electronics, software engineering and microcomputer programming. Mainly in the automotive sector on projects for the German automobile manufacturers Audi and Volkswagen.

Graduated with a First Class Honours Degree; Awarded with the University Medal for Outstanding Achievements

Research year abroad; Worked with Prof. Sebastian Thrun of the Robotics Lap on the DARPA Urban Challenge 2007; Worked with Prof. Chris Gerdes (Dynamic Design Lab) on the topic of side slip estimation by using computer vision; Took classes in psychology for personal interest;

Focus on software engineering, in particular on embedded systems and microcomputer; GPA of 1.5 on a 5.0 scale (1.0=excellent)