Self Employed

My Services: 
👉 Configuration Management (SUP.8)
👉 Product Release (SPL.2)
👉 ASPICE process consulting and internal assessments, gap analysis

I‘m supporting automotive suppliers, startups, OEMs and established Tier1s in understanding and tackling the challenges that come with developing, producing, certifying and implementing next generation automotive L3+ (ASIL B+) products such as highly autonomous driving platforms, lidar, radar, camera and HPC systems

Software Quality Process Engineer

scaletech

Check out the scaletech company page ✌🏼

+3M monthly tech content impressions 😮‍💨

Owner and Content Creator

The Lidar Society

👉 Crafting unique engineering grade content that turns heads
👉 Managing the Lidar Society, which is a community (currently LinekdIn Group) of professionals, investors, and enthusiasts working in the field of lidar technology. 
👉 It is a platform for knowledge-sharing, collaboration, and networking among members, with a focus on advancing the field of lidar technology and shaping the future of autonomous transportation. 
👉 Joining the community offers access to expert insights, opportunities to connect with industry leaders and other like-minded professionals, and a chance to be part of a group driving innovation in the field.

Automotive B2B Content Creator (building "The Lidar Society")

Ibeo Automotive Systems GmbH

Developing the first serial solid state LiDAR sensor for automotive and industrial applications.
Responsible for Release Management and Production Release of the IbeoNEXT LiDAR sensor going from Prototype to SOP.
* Planning of all Sensor Releases with Product, Application and Production Management 
* Handling all Configuration items along the way
* Responsible for on-time, quality release and documentation of the ibeo Next 4D solid state Lidar sensor

Release & Configuration Manager LIDAR Sensor

Supported the current RTE in daily tasks and took over IT, Project Management/Scheduling and Organizational tasks.
Onboarding time on the ibeoNext Project until I eventually took over Release Management for the project.

Release Train Engineer Lidar Sensor

Development, Planning and Implementation of Culture Space.

Coroporate Culture

Customer acquisition, presentations, project management, strategy and planning.
* Prepared customer presentations for Group Lead
* Supported customer and project acquisition.
* Responsible for L4 AD use case development and evaluation.
* Project Planning and Controlling of research funded AD projects.

Project Manager Autonomous Driving

Responsible for the Vehicle and Sensor Simulation activities and Virtual Testing.
Supported the founding of subsidiary ibeo-nl.de in Eindhoven, NL.
* Initiated the ibeo simulation activities with newly founded company.
* Project lead at ibeo for vehicle simulation and implementation of ray tracing/casting based Lidar sensor models.
* Counterpart to ibeo-nl CEO for all sorts of administrative and project related topics. 
* Goal of the project was to create a sophisticated simulation suite for high quality physics based Lidar sensor models, to create synthetic data for environmental perception model evaluation.

Project Manager Simulation

Simulation framework development and project management for Lidar sensor model development.
Integrated ibeo, IPG Carmaker and Vires VTD SDKs, to create data for environmental perception algorithm development.

Software Developer - Virtual Testing

Continental

Vehicle Simulation Engineer in the Virtual Vehicle Test department. 
IPG Carmaker was facilitated as a virtual integration platform for all kinds of prototype software as well as self developed models. Just to name a few interfaces: Matlab/Simulink, Dymola(Modelica), C, DLL etc. Fully compatible with FMI Standard.
Worked on SIL, MIL and HIL projects as well as supported road testing. Also a framework for automated testing was developed.

Virtual Test Engineer

HWA AG / Mercedes-AMG DTM Team

Intern in Mercedes-AMG DTM Team's Vehicle Dynamics Group

Vehicle Dynamics Engineer

MAHLE Powertrain Ltd.

Torque vectoring controller design to generate desired handling perception of TtR electric hybrid improving fun-to-drive aspect. MIL based performance and robustness validation followed by final implementation and calibration on an actual prototype vehicle. Particular focus on formulating general handling statement for different driving modes and designing sophisticated desired handling generator.

Research Intern

Institute of Automotive Engineering TU Braunschweig

ACC development
longitudinal vehicle dynamics
processing of measured data
developing vehicle models
vehicle dynamics validation

Graduate Research Assistant

IPG Automotive GmbH

Bachelor Thesis

Parameterisation and validation of a Formula Student racecar using on track measured data.

Parametrierung und Validierung eines Formula Student Fahrzeugmodells anhand von Messdaten aus realen Testfahrten.

Research Internship

Transcoject GmbH

IBS, University of Applied Sciences Kiel

Industriebegleitetes Studium (IBS) Fachhochschule Kiel

Integrated Degree Student

You are curious about Lidar? Last 12 Months +1.9M Automotive Experts joined us | Our lidar community is fueled with genuine lidar insights. You won’t find anywhere else | This is your chance to get 1:1 with Lidar Leaders

Everyone wants to match China speed or Tesla agility, but few automotive teams know how to get there. 

The usual suspects—poor developer experience, ASPICE bottlenecks, and cultural misalignment—are holding your team back.

Your developers are overwhelmed. 

Quality managers are frustrated. 

And despite your efforts with Agile-at-Scale and ASPICE consultancies, nothing seems to click.

Here’s the good news: the secret to China speed is simple but not easy. 

With a proven approach, I help automotive software teams achieve happy developers, happy quality managers, and hassle-free ASPICE compliance—all while keeping your existing processes and tooling intact.

I’ve spent the past decade solving these challenges. 

-> I established configuration and release management systems for a startup that became a Tier 1 lidar sensor supplier

-> Isupported a Silicon Valley startup in implementing an ASPICE-compliant process landscape (ensuring developers stayed in flow without being burdened by excessive manual effort)

-> I worked with a major German premium OEM to rethink their software development journey.

Together, we stopped wasting time on nonsense like manual compliance in Excel, Confluence pages, and excessive Jira templates. 

Instead, we focused on automated compliance monitoring, seamless reporting, and developer-level training—allowing teams to live up to their full potential.

If you’re ready to stop spinning your wheels and finally outpace the competition, let’s talk. 

Limited slots available—message me to learn how.


Lukas Timm

Hell is breaking lose in automotive Germany 😳
Nexperia chip shortage hitting first Tier1s.

Bosch filed for Kurzarbeit affecting over 1,000 workers at its Salzgitter plant. 

ZF Friedrichshafen notified Germany’s employment agency and filed for Kurzarbeit at multiple sites. 

The reason? 

Nexperia chip deliveries stopped flowing.

This isn’t a supply hiccup. 

This is just-in-time manufacturing meeting geopolitical reality.

The cascading effect:

→ Bosch: 1,000+ employees at Salzgitter entering short-time work

→ ZF: Filed for Kurzarbeit at “individual locations” (numbers “still manageable” but growing)

→ ZF also cut shifts at its 8,000-employee Schweinfurt electric drivetrain plant

→ Volkswagen can’t rule out production stoppages beyond next week

→ IG Metall reports “many companies” across Bavaria and Lower Saxony preparing similar measures


This is a systemic disaster:

Nexperia produces 50+ billion standard chips annually. 
Not advanced nodes. 
Basic transistors, diodes, battery management chips.

The chips that cost 50 cents but can stop a million-euro production line.

When the Dutch government seized control of Chinese-owned Nexperia in late September, China responded with export restrictions. 

Now German automakers can’t get the chips their Tier-1 suppliers need.


It’s disturbing to see how German automotive is built on such a fragile supply chain with single point failures as devastating as this one!

Germany’s automotive sector employs 700,000+ people. 

Multiple suppliers already announced massive job cuts before this crisis:

↳ Bosch cutting 22,000 positions in mobility
↳ ZF eliminating 14,000 German jobs by 2028
↳ Continental planning 1,450 cuts by 2026

The Nexperia crisis hits an industry already weakened by electrification costs, falling demand, and compressed margins.

What makes this even worse. 

Unlike 2020-2021, this isn’t pandemic-driven capacity issues. 

This is a geopolitical conflict creating artificial scarcity in globally integrated supply chains.

Alternative suppliers exist. 

But re-qualification and ramp-up take months if not years.

Bosch, Continental and other suppliers report their inventories last about two weeks.

The IG Metall union’s phones are “running hot” with works councils seeking advice on Kurzarbeit agreements

The brutal reality is this:

Germany built its automotive dominance on precision engineering and reliable supply chains. 

The Nexperia crisis exposes how vulnerable just-in-time manufacturing becomes when geopolitics trump economics.

The question isn’t if more companies will announce Kurzarbeit. 

It’s how many, and how fast the diplomatic resolution comes.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

———

As always… powered by scaletech 

Want to scale your tech founder LinkedIn profile to +1M impressions yearly and 10s of inbound leads every month let’s talk 😊

Stop losing deals to competitors with weaker tech but stronger visibility. You already have the expertise — you just need a system to make it seen.

No alternative text description for this image

taplio