Lukas Petersson
Co-Founder at Andon Labs
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolLukas Petersson is a software engineer and entrepreneur with seven years of experience building robotics and ML systems, currently co-founding Andon Labs in San Francisco. He combines hands-on backend and automation skills—demonstrated by latency-logging and testing improvements to comma.ai’s openpilot, an influential open-source driving OS used on hundreds of cars—with research experience at Google on LLMs and robotics work at Disney Research and ESA. Lukas holds advanced engineering degrees from Lund and a master's in AI from ETH Zürich, pairing strong theoretical grounding with practical systems delivery. He has a track record of shipping low-latency instrumentation and parallel testing infrastructure, bridging research prototypes and production-grade telemetry. A less obvious strength is his cross-domain fluency: from flight software at ESA to driverless racecar software and commercial autopilot tooling—useful for startups tackling safety-critical embedded AI.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorMaster of Engineering - MEng, Engineering Mathematics, 5/5, Master of Engineering - MEng, Engineering Mathematics, 5/5 at The Faculty of Engineering at Lund UniversityMaster's degree, Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree, Artificial Intelligence at ETH Zürich
Swedish, English, Spanish, German
Stackoverflow
195reputation
20kreached
5answers
18questions
Github Skills (25)
python10
log-analysis10
automation10
automations10
testing9
test-framework9
cprogramming-language8
robotics8
c-language8
drive7
driver7
system7
gitbash6
vagrant6
database6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
commaai/openpilot
Apr 2022 - Jun 2022
openpilot is an operating system for robotics. Currently, it upgrades the driver assistance system on 300+ supported cars.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:33 reviews, 21 commits, 47 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Lukas primarily focused on enhancing the latency logging capabilities within the openpilot system. Their contributions include implementing a new timestamp pipeline and refining existing logging mechanisms for improved performance analysis. They also worked on optimizing the latencylogger tool by adding features such as binary search for frame ID and offset visualization. Furthermore, the user integrated improvements to the testing framework by adding support for parallel execution of processes.
driveroperating-systemroboticsdriver-assistance-systemsadvanced-driver-assistance-systems
lukaspetersson/web-resume
Jan 2019 - Sep 2022
Contributions:197 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 8 months
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