Matthew Nielsen
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorMatthew Nielsen is a senior autopilot software engineer with eight years of experience building real-time and distributed systems for robotics and AI, currently driving Autopilot development at Tesla from Palo Alto. He brings deep C++ and Rust expertise honed through progressive roles at Formlabs where he advanced from intern to technical lead, shipping production-grade embedded and desktop systems. Matthew combines low-latency systems design with practical hardware integration experience, making him adept at turning complex sensing and control algorithms into reliable, deployable software. His career path shows a pattern of rapid growth and ownership in high-impact teams, and he prefers solving hard infrastructure problems that sit at the intersection of perception, control, and systems reliability.
8 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (55)
saas10
e2e10
tweet10
opcodes10
javascript9
test-framework9
functional-testing9
bash9
testcafe9
automation9
test-automation8
browser8
typescript8
configuration-management8
testcase8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
MatthewNielsen27/site
May 2019 - Mar 2024
Repository for my personal website
Contributions:2 PRs, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
azohra/strapped.sh
Nov 2018 - Aug 2019
Stay strapped
Contributions:2 releases, 151 commits, 5 PRs in 8 months
bashconfiguration-managementautomationsaas
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