Hordur Johannsson
Senior Software Engineer at Teledyne Gavia
Iceland
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Top SchoolHordur Johannsson is a Senior Software Engineer based in Iceland with 14 years of professional experience building robust software for autonomous underwater vehicles and related systems. With a PhD-level background in robotics from MIT and long-running roles developing control, sensor integration and navigation software for the Gavia AUV, he bridges cutting-edge research and production-grade engineering. He has made notable open-source contributions to the widely used Point Cloud Library, improving simulation fidelity through range likelihood, coordinate conventions, and shader/CPU implementations. Comfortable across embedded, real-time and back-end domains, he combines deep algorithmic knowledge with pragmatic system design. Colleagues rely on him for tough problems in localization, mapping and simulated perception—areas where his academic and industry work intersect.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, Robotics, PhD, Computer Science, Robotics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at Háskóli ÍslandsMenntaskólinn við SundMS
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Github Skills (11)
simulations10
simulation10
pcl10
computer-vision10
point-cloud-library10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
point-cloud10
opengl10
glsl9
cmake8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
PointCloudLibrary/pcl
Nov 2011 - Apr 2012
Point Cloud Library (PCL)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Hordur's commits primarily focused on enhancing the simulation capabilities within the Point Cloud Library (PCL) repository. They implemented and refined features related to range likelihood computation, introducing both CPU and shader-based implementations. The user also made modifications to the coordinate conventions and point cloud transformations to ensure accurate simulation results. Furthermore, their work included improvements to color support within the polygon model and adjustments to the simulated point cloud generation process.
cpppoint-cloud-libraryc-plus-pluscomputer-visionpcl-library
hordurj/mach
Jun 2024 - Aug 2024
zig game engine & graphics toolkit
Contributions:23 pushes, 12 branches in 2 months
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