Leo Pauly
CEO & Founder at Plasma Orbital
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLeo Pauly is a founder-engineer with 12 years’ experience at the intersection of AI, robotics and space systems, currently building Plasma Orbital to deliver AI-microSats for next‑gen maritime surveillance. He combines deep research credentials—PhD-level work in AI & robotics and multiple ESA-backed projects on spacecraft pose estimation and in-orbit autonomy—with hands-on systems engineering from prototype to flight (including synthetic dataset generation and edge-deployable models). Based in London, he has led academic-industrial tech transfer, authored peer-reviewed papers, and translated MATLAB research pipelines into Python/C++ production workflows. A community builder as well as a founder, he runs Hardware is not Hard and mentors hardware startups, and his background in teaching and IEEE leadership reflects an ability to communicate complex technical ideas to diverse audiences. Less obvious: he repeatedly bridges laboratory-grade algorithms with pragmatic, resource-constrained space deployments, demonstrating both research depth and product-focused execution.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy Artificial Intelligence & Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy Artificial Intelligence & Robotics at University of LeedsSecondary School Leaving Certificate, Secondary School Leaving Certificate at Carmel Higher Secondary SchoolSenior Secondary, Senior Secondary at Devamatha CMI Public SchoolCertificate Course Embedded Design Engineer, Certificate Course Embedded Design Engineer at Accel IT Academy | CochinBachelor of Technology Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology Electronics and Communications Engineering at Cochin University of Science and Technology
English, Malayalam, Hindi
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Github Skills (3)
opencv6
numpy6
python6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
leopauly/CAMbot-Customer-Assistance-Mobile-Manipulator-Robot
Apr 2015 - Oct 2021
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
leopauly/Observation-Learning
Oct 2017 - Jul 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 56 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 9 months
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