Hello, I'm

Bartosz Burda

Embedded Software Architect.

Co-founder of selfpatch.ai.

I build the diagnostic and recovery layer for robots.

LinkedIn GitHub selfpatch.ai

01 / About

Who this is

Field: Robotics, PLCs, automotive diagnostics
Now: Co-founder, selfpatch.ai
Since: 2015, in embedded software

I co-founded selfpatch.ai. Before that I spent about ten years on diagnostics for cars. When I moved to robots I found the same problems: failures that are hard to debug, no standard way to ask a machine what is wrong, and almost nothing shared between vendors. Cars settled this decades ago and wrote it into standards. Robots have not.

02 / The road so far

Now: robots ← back then: cars · 13 roles

A car and a humanoid made from the same rigid parts: floor plates, wheel pairs, doors, side skirts, and a roof pod that becomes the head. Scrolling the timeline moves the parts from one arrangement to the other. No part is redrawn.

The body changes. The diagnostic model does not.

May 2026 - present

Co-Founder

selfpatch.ai

Solution architecture and product direction for robot diagnostics and recovery tooling.

Jul 2025 - Apr 2026

OS Tool System Engineer

42dot

Tooling and infrastructure for a Software-Defined Vehicle OS; Eclipse OpenSOVD contributions. Rust, Python, Docker, GitLab CI, Renode, Bazel.

Sep 2024 - Jun 2025

Solutions Architect

OpenTier

Cloud-native IoT platform for connected fleets; ROS 2 and Zenoh edge-to-cloud streaming; agentic AI microservices. Rust, C++, Python, TypeScript, MongoDB, InfluxDB, PostgreSQL, AWS.

Sep 2022 - Jun 2024

Senior Software Engineer

Apex.AI

UDS (ISO 14229) and DoIP (ISO 13400) diagnostic modules for Apex.OS; SOME/IP serialization and an E2E protection library.

Jan 2022 - Jul 2022

Lead Software Architect

Spyrosoft

E-bike connectivity system; FOTA update design and driver and occupancy monitoring. AUTOSAR Classic, MISRA C, UML2/SysML.

Jul 2021 - Dec 2021

Technical Lead and Software Architect

Siili Auto

HMI and middleware for digital clusters on QNX 7.0 and Android Automotive, Qt 5.15/QML; DDS, CAN, LIN; ASPICE and ISO 26262 ASIL B workflows.

Mar 2020 - Jun 2021

Senior Software Engineer and Consultant

umlaut

Product Owner for an Adaptive AUTOSAR platform; Industry 4.0 hot-runner controller; RFQ and RFP responses.

Jul 2019 - Feb 2020

Senior Software Engineer

GlobalLogic

Emergency-call (eCall) service modules for telematics ECUs; ISO 26262 ASIL B safety modules.

Jun 2018 - Jun 2019

Software Engineer

Mobica

AUTOSAR Adaptive positioning: map and lane matching, with OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers.

Feb 2018 - May 2018

Java Server Developer

Huuuge Games

Backend performance and scalability for online multiplayer.

Jun 2017 - Jan 2018

Software Engineer

Mobica

ERP modules and vending machine control software.

Jan 2016 - May 2017

Junior Software Engineer

brightONE Poland (now Codelab)

HIL/SIL desktop test automation for in-vehicle infotainment: CAN, HMI, audio, connectivity.

Jul 2015 - Sep 2015

Trainee

brightONE Poland

The same HIL/SIL infotainment test automation, before the junior role.

03 / Selected work

Open source

Open-source project

ros2_medkit

Open-source SOVD diagnostics gateway for ROS 2. Entity discovery, typed clients and a web UI over a C++17 REST gateway. Creator and primary contributor.

C++17
REST / OpenAPI
ROS 2
SOVD / ISO 17978

Repository →Documentation →

The ros2_medkit web UI: a SOVD entity tree of areas, components and apps discovered from a live ROS 2 graph, beside the overview panel for the selected area.

Eclipse OpenSOVD

Merged / in review

Diagnostics work done at 42dot, under the @bburda42dot account.

cicd-workflowsReusable Rust build, test, coverage and Miri pipelines for the project repositories2 merged →fault-libA diagnostic fault library: the DFM core and the SOVD interface on top of it#7 in review →mdd-uiDiff view for MDD trees, and exporting a diff to a text file#17 merged →diagnostic_yaml_proposalA YAML schema for diagnostic data, a converter to MDD, and CDA integrationrepo →diag-converterODX and MDD conversion: protocols, ECU shared data, comparams, DTC handlingrepo →

Spec-driven AI engineering

Open source

pharaoh-skillsA gated V-model workflow, atomic agent skills, review and grounding axes6 merged →ai_memory_protocolA small experiment: Sphinx-Needs as structured memory an agent can queryrepo →

04 / Writing

Articles

Nothing on this site yet. New articles appear here and in the RSS feed.

Published elsewhere

Linked, not copied

2026-07When you can't reach the robot: SOVD diagnostics and OTA updates in Foxglove via the ros2_medkit extensionDiagnosing a robot and pushing an OTA fix from Foxglove after the network is gone.Foxglove blog →2026-03ros2_medkit 0.4.0 - Production Diagnostics for ROS 2 FleetsCondition-based triggers, remote diagnostic scripts, resource locking and log aggregation.selfpatch.ai →

05 / Standards and stack

What I work in

Standards: SOVD / ISO 17978
UDS / ISO 14229
DoIP / ISO 13400
ISO 26262
ISO 21434
AUTOSAR
ASPICE
MISRA
Platforms: Embedded Linux
QNX
Android Automotive
Bare metal
Middleware: ROS 2
DDS
Zenoh
SOME/IP
CAN
LIN
Languages: C++
Rust
Python
TypeScript

06 / Education

2012 - 2016

B.Sc. in Automatic Control and Robotics

West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin

Thesis: Mobile robot position identification using Kinect camera. Ten years later the same question - where is the machine and what state is it in - is still the job.

07 / Contact

LinkedIn is fastest

Message me on LinkedIn, or read the code first.