Angus Leigh
Machine Learning Engineer at Rivian
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAngus Leigh is a Machine Learning Engineer based in London with 12 years of experience spanning research, prototyping and production-grade ML systems. He brings deep expertise in perception and robotics—having worked on self-driving stacks at Google/Waymo—and in building reliable backend software in Python and C++ for real-world deployment. His background covers computer vision, lidar, 3D reconstruction, MLOps and deep learning (PyTorch), with hands-on experience turning research prototypes into labeling and inference tools at Sama and Element AI. Angus pairs an academic foundation (MSc, McGill) with industrial impact, contributing to the world’s first fully autonomous ride and practical ML tooling for LLM and 3D data. He’s comfortable across the full ML lifecycle, from publications and open-source research implementations to scalable production infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Systems Design Engineering with a German minor, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Systems Design Engineering with a German minor at University of WaterlooStudy Abroad Semester, Engineering, Study Abroad Semester, Engineering at Technische Universität BraunschweigM.Sc., Computer Science, Computer Science, M.Sc., Computer Science, Computer Science at McGill University
English, German, French
Github Skills (12)
3d-mapping10
slam10
ros9
robotics9
ipb9
detector9
pdf9
face-detector9
face8
odometry8
defense8
computer-vision7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
angusleigh/hog_haar_person_detection
May 2014 - Sep 2017
Contributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 years 4 months
haarros-packagepedestriandetectorface-detector
angusleigh/website
Jan 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:13 commits, 13 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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