I am an automotive professional with 15+ years of work experience and 10+ years leadership experience. Most of this time spent in Hungary, a couple of years in the US, which has fundamentally formed my viewpoint regarding cultural openness and understanding each other.
I like working with people, loving their jobs and doing real ENGINEERING work in the best sense of this word.
In my current role, as director of software engineering at our Cross-computing division at Bosch I enjoy having a real, positive effect on automotive via leading a state of the art software-focused team, and representing our company’s motto: invented for life. This practically means the ownership of functions like automatic emergency braking in the car, which helps us to prevent accidents and save lives.
Collected experiences mainly in the last 10years in the IT sector, special focus on strategy recruitment and create a people,- and professional-oriented environment at the same time.
Experienced finance and business development project manager (9+ years) with strong organizatory and stakeholder management skills, PM and Agile qualifications. Fluent in English and German.
Niels is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and works as Software Architect Lead at Derivco in Durban, South Africa, where he leads a team of architects. He also develops software and “dreams” up new and innovative ways to use existing and new technologies.
Before joining Derivco, Niels worked as a researcher/instructor at Developmentor, responsible for the database curriculum.
Niels has been working with SQL Server since SQL Server 4.2, and co-authored the first SQL Server 2005 book for developers: “A First Look at SQL 2005 for Developers”. Apart from being a SQL Server “nerd”, he is now quite interested in real-time streaming data, stream-processing, and the Cloud and Big Data. He blogs regularly about these topics at https://nielsberglund.com.
He is a sought after presenter at technology conferences and has presented at, amongst others: Tech-ED, SQL PASS, DevWeek, SQL Bits, SQL Saturday, etc.
Creating and managing cross-cultural teams located in Germany, US, East-Europe, India and China in the area of autonomous driving and navigation systems.
Expert in the following domain areas
- navigation databases/applications (especially based on NDS)
- navigation guidance (AR) / AD decision making
- ADAS databases/applications
- processing sensor data for ADAS applications, e.g. camera, LiDAR, radar, 4D radar
- sensor calibration
- SLAM
- navigation systems, i.e. routing, search, rendering, traffic
- data mining (clustering & classification),
- machine learning and deep learning (CNNs)
- spatial-temporal-uncertain data structures
- sensor fusion for moving objects, lanes, signs, etc. based on camera, LiDAR, radar, IMU, v2x and map data
- localization (particle filter, GNSS, ego-motion, landmarks, SLAM)
- environmental model
- other aspects related to autonomous driving, e.g. planning, simulation, system and functional safety
- experienced with standardization bodies and governmental organizations
More than 50 patents and more than 50 research papers in the above-mentioned areas.
Since 2013, Dr. Károly Balázs Solymár has been holding the position of Deputy State Secretary at the Ministry of Technology and Industry, at its legal predecessors.
He studied at the ELTE Faculty of Law, as a member of the István Bibó College of Law, as a law student. He graduated in 2003 with a ‘summa cum laude’ law degree, and in 2010 took the bar exam.
He has gained nearly two decades of experience in regulatory, economic and complex development tasks affecting the infocommunications sector. Under his professional guidance strategic documents such as the National Infocommunications Strategy 2014-2020 was developed. All these served as the basis for the development of Hungary’s digital economy, information society and digital infrastructuret. Under his supervision, the Hungarian Artificial Intelligence Coalition and the Hungarian Artificial Intelligence Strategy were established, which can be considered the milestones in the development of the Hungarian AI ecosystem.
Since July 2022, Dr. Károly Balázs Solymár has been holding the position of Deputy State Secretary for Technology at the Ministry of Technology and Industry, he is responsible for the digitalization of industrial sectors and the supply of the industry with the most up-to-date technologies.
