Jon Sowman
Head Of Robotaxi Engineering at Wayve
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Sowman is a robotics and control engineering leader with 12 years' experience bridging theory and hands-on embedded systems development, currently leading robotics at Wayve. He holds an MEng from Cambridge and an EngD from Southampton and is a chartered control and electronics engineer with deep expertise in advanced control design, optimisation, and firmware. Jon has led multidisciplinary teams delivering autonomy and control solutions across automotive, renewable energy, space and medical sectors, pairing model-based control with machine-learning approaches for large-scale asset management. His background includes doctoral research on emissions control and practical design/tuning of real-time embedded hardware and software—a blend that helps him translate rigorous academic methods into robust, deployable systems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Engineering, Masters, Engineering at University of CambridgeResearch Doctorate, Engineering, Research Doctorate, Engineering at University of Southampton
Github Skills (10)
firmware7
arduino6
logging4
simulation4
java4
logger4
libopencm31
rtl-sdr1
decode1
dongle1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jonsowman/ukhasnet-fc-node
Jan 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:60 commits, 98 pushes in 3 years 2 months
mattbrejza/magnet-node
Aug 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:113 pushes, 2 branches, 1 comment in 1 year 7 months
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