ABOUT

Team up. With agility
and dedication.

OUR TEAM

With over 200 years of combined experience, we’ve got a great blend of varied professionals.
Meet our team!

rodja trappe ceo
stephan palmer technical lead
dr. falko schindler robotics lead

Rodja Trappe

CEO

Stephan Palmer

TECHNICAL LEAD

Dr. Falko Schindler

ROBOTICS LEAD + R&D

maik switalski senior developer
phillip glahe computer data scientist
jochen keuschnig mechatronics

Maik Switalski

SENIOR DEVELOPER + AI DATA SCIENTIST

Philipp Glahe

COMPUTER + DATA SCIENTIST

Jochen Keuschnig

MECHATRONICS

lucas von der forst mechanical engineering
witalij maisterko mechanical engineering
leonie winkelmann design

Lucas von der Forst

ELECTRONICS + MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Witalij Maisterko

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING + CUSTOM DEVELOPMENT

Leonie Winkelmann

UX DESIGN

britta janning human ressources
britta janning human ressources

HUMAN RESOURCES

Britta Janning

Claus-Peter Reidegeld

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT

OFFICE + INVOICES

Hermann Thoene

SERVICES

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Software
Development

We write cross-platform apps with Xamarin or Flutter and web frontends with Angular or NiceGui. Backends and robots are mostly coded with Python and for embedded systems we use C++.

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Artificial
Intelligence

Our main focus is on computer vision tasks with active learning. We also work with reinforcement learning to tackle difficult-to-code tasks in robotics.

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Product 

Design

The design of our products is based on the 10 Design Theses from Dieter Rams. Good design is innovative, makes a product useful and is environmentally friendly.

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System Administration

While we use macs as workstations we love Linux on servers and robots. We automate with Ansible, package with Docker and create overlay networks with Nebula.

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Mechanical
Engineering

Fusion 360 is our go-to tool for collaborative CAD. We utilise a Lulzbot and an Ultimaker S5 for 

3D printing, have a welding station and order metal parts from TailorSteel.

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Electronics

We design circuit boards with KiCad, solder on a dedicated height-adjustable table or utilise our oven and order many of the needed pieces directly in China.

SKILL SET


Use our skills to crack your problem.

AGILE & LEAN

Our agile team is greatly inspired by extreme programming in terms of methodology and working methods.
We keep processes clear, flexible and lean with Kanban. By working from first principles and setting grand goals we push for the best solutions.

To make collaboration frictionless a combination of Trello, Slack and Google Workspaces has proven to be ideal for us.

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CULTURE

We strongly identify with Ray Dalio's principles: “be radical open minded and radical truthful; because if everything is brought up, improvement happens much faster”, as it is well summarised in this video.

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COMPANY

LEGAL

Hohenholter Straße 43

48329 Havixbeck

trappe@zauberzeug.com
+49 (0)2507 3817

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