Peter Nelson
Lead Software Engineer at Oxa
Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPeter Nelson is a Lead Software Engineer with 15 years’ experience building production-grade systems for autonomous vehicles and cloud platforms, currently leading development of Caesium, Oxbotica’s fleet management and real‑time telemetry platform. With a DPhil from the University of Oxford in mobile robotics, he combines deep research expertise in mapping and localisation with hands-on systems engineering across firmware, sensor drivers, backend services, and web UIs (C/C++, Java/Kotlin, Python, JS). He has delivered end-to-end solutions spanning in-vehicle hardware integration, secure deployment pipelines, spatial databases, and data pipelines used in landmark trials including Heathrow’s airside autonomous vehicle deployment. Comfortable shifting between low-level device work and cloud-native architectures, he also brings practical field trial experience—safety driving, on-road debugging, and incident reporting—that tightens the loop between lab research and real-world operations. Notably, he built and now manages the full Caesium lifecycle team, blending technical leadership with product-focused delivery.
16 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MCompSci, Computer Science, First Class, MCompSci, Computer Science, First Class at University of Oxford
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Github contributions (5)
peterdn/dll2lib
Jan 2013 - Jan 2018
A .NET command-line app that produces an import library (.lib) from a target dynamic link library (.dll).
Contributions:8 commits, 2 pushes in 5 years
command-linedotnet
webkitdotnet/webkitdotnet
Aug 2010 - Mar 2013
.NET control library wrapper for WebKit
Contributions:119 commits in 2 years 7 months
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