Hi, my name is

Matthias.

I build things for rockets and security

I’m a passionate developer of all things that fly and can be attacked. My favourite place of operation is where the physical world is beginning to show it’s impact on the mathematical world of algorithms.

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About Me

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My passion for new technologies and a curiousity to how they function, has led me to study Computer Science at FU Berlin and now at TU Berlin. Gradually, this interest became more and more geared towards computer engineering and the interplay between hardware and software. For the past few years, I have developed a strong passion for self-built drones and rockets. This ranges from designing a use-case and researching hardware that synergizes well, to assembly and finally to programming various components of the devices in languages such as C. Currently I am working on the telemetry pipeline for the newest rocket Aeroebar of the student initiative Bears e.V. for the European Rocketry Challenge 2027. I love the engineering challenges this ongoing project as well as my drone projects provide! In my free time I enjoy climbing, mountaineering and am currently in the process of getting my paragliding license.

Experience

Bachelors Thesis - Fraunhofer AISEC
Apr 2025 - Jul 2025
  • Developed an app to automatically extract and transmit certificate chains to my server backend
  • Used a custom test bench to analyze 47 android devices
  • Found several suspicious values, one of which was the 4 year old boot patch level at the time of device release
Robotics Software Engineer Intern - AIR6 Systems
Aug 2024 - Sep 2024
  • Implemented a video pipeline for a drone-mounted NIR camera using GStreamer
  • Developed a charge estimation tool for the UT inspection rover
  • Automated various startup and maintenance tasks for NVIDIA Jetson
Software Engineer Intern - dotparc IT
Aug 2019 - Sep 2019
  • Software prototyping using C# for Wertholz GmbH
  • Deployed relational database schemas using SQL
  • Documentation of a customer management software in UML

Education

2025 - Ongoing
Master of Science in Computer Science
Technische Universität Berlin
  • Avionics Developer at Bears e.V
2022 - 2025
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Freie Universität Berlin

I wrote several papers, as well as my thesis, on the topic of information security. Click their names to view them in your browser!

High School
International School Carinthia
  • 3rd best grade of my year group
  • Bilingual diploma
  • Higher-Level Subjects: Physics, Mathematics, Business Management

Projects

Flight Controller
ESP32 CAN FD FreeRTOS C
Flight Controller
At the Experimental Rocketry group of Bears e.V., I am helping to write the code for the first custom flight controller of the club.
Self-Hosting
SearXNG Piped Nextcloud Overleaf
Self-Hosting
Hosting and maintaining several services publicly, as well as some for selected friends & family.

Get in Touch

My inbox is always open. Whether you have a question or just want to say hi, I’ll try my best to get back to you!