Mohammad Nafees Bin Zaman shares his journey from the IFRoS Master’s programme to his current role as a Software Engineer at Physiotherapie Mobili in Germany. He highlights how the program’s interdisciplinary structure—spanning Girona, Zagreb, and Stockholm—provided the technical foundation and systems-thinking mindset necessary for complex engineering. Mohammad’s story illustrates how IFRoS prepares graduates for high-level roles in both robotics and enterprise-grade software development, bridging the gap between perception pipelines and intelligent healthcare systems. You can read his full story below.
“I am currently working as a Software Engineer at Physiotherapie Mobili in Germany, where I focus on designing and scaling enterprise-grade medical software systems. The technical and interdisciplinary foundation provided by the IFRoS Master’s program has been instrumental in shaping both my engineering approach and my career trajectory.
After completing the Master’s program, I began my professional career as a Robotics Engineer, developing commercial unmanned aerial systems. This role involved integrating perception pipelines, control algorithms, and embedded hardware into production-ready platforms. The breadth of exposure gained during IFRoS allowed me to adapt quickly to industry-grade robotics challenges and collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary teams.
Currently, I work as a Software Engineer, where my team and I have developed a distributed, enterprise-level medical software platform. My responsibilities include implementing real-time transactional workflows, designing scalable backend architectures, and integrating large language models into both mobile and web applications. This work requires balancing system performance, data consistency, and security within regulated healthcare environments. In parallel, we are planning research and development initiatives focused on therapy-oriented robotic systems, combining robotics, human–machine interaction, and intelligent software.
I strongly recommend IFRoS to students seeking a technically rigorous program that develops not only domain expertise in robotics, but also the systems-thinking mindset required to build complex, production-ready technologies.”