Matias Varnum
Senior Autonomy Engineer at Skydio
Moss, Norway
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Top SchoolMatias Varnum is a Senior Autonomy Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building visual odometry, SLAM, and flight-control systems for aerial robotics. Currently at Skydio, he has progressed from Autonomy Engineer to senior roles, applying deep expertise in computer vision, GPU/CUDA acceleration, and numerical optimization to real-world drone autonomy. His background spans R&D roles across Norway and Germany, including FLIR and research at TUM, reflecting a strong bridge between academic research and product-grade systems. Matias enjoys combining math and CS to solve hard perception problems and has contributed to multiple robotics and flight-control projects from prototype to deployment. He brings a practical fluency in deep learning and data science alongside low-level optimization, often finding performance wins in algorithmic and GPU implementation details. Based in Moss, Norway, he pairs international research experience with product-focused engineering at scale.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Technical University of MunichNorwegian University of Science and Technology
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Github Skills (74)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
matiasvc/.dotfiles
Aug 2021 - Dec 2024
Contributions:97 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
matiasvc/Toucan
Dec 2020 - Apr 2021
Toucan: A C++ visualization library aimed at computer vision and robotics.
Contributions:1 release, 45 commits, 2 PRs in 4 months
visualization-libraryroboticscppvisioncomputer-vision
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