Henry Neilson
Vice President Of Engineering at Dropmatics
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHenry Neilson is a founder-led engineering executive with 8 years of hands-on experience building products at the intersection of hardware and software, having led tech and product efforts as CTO and co-founder at HEXR and RLS and now founding Dropmatics while serving as VP of Engineering at HyBird. Trained as a mechanical engineer at UCL, he combines systems-level hardware thinking with software delivery skills to launch and scale physical-tech ventures, particularly in the helmet and safety space. He excels at starting companies from zero—designing hardware, assembling teams, and shipping integrated products—and advises startups where that cross-disciplinary expertise is rare. Based in London with international experience (including Dubai), he prefers high-leverage consulting and early-stage roles and is known for turning prototype concepts into operational businesses.
7 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Lancing CollegeUniversity College London
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Github Skills (37)
react-motion10
calendars9
blender8
3d-reconstruction8
chrome-extension8
journal7
browser-extension7
image-stitching7
easy-install7
react7
structure-from-motion7
computer-vision7
win32com6
texturing6
pydrive6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
HCAWN/kinetad
Jun 2018 - Dec 2019
Encrypted online Journal
Contributions:82 commits, 10 PRs, 66 pushes in 1 year 6 months
journalencryptionencrypted
HCAWN/gcal-multical-event-merge
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
Browser extension that visually merges the same event on multiple Google Calendars into one event.
Contributions:21 commits, 26 PRs, 24 pushes in 21 days
browser-extensioncalendarsbrowserchrome-extension
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