Matthew Nielsen
Sr. Autopilot Software Engineer at Tesla
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Nielsen is a senior autopilot software engineer with eight years of experience building real-time and distributed systems for robotics and AI, currently driving Autopilot development at Tesla from Palo Alto. He brings deep C++ and Rust expertise honed through progressive roles at Formlabs where he advanced from intern to technical lead, shipping production-grade embedded and desktop systems. Matthew combines low-latency systems design with practical hardware integration experience, making him adept at turning complex sensing and control algorithms into reliable, deployable software. His career path shows a pattern of rapid growth and ownership in high-impact teams, and he prefers solving hard infrastructure problems that sit at the intersection of perception, control, and systems reliability.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (72)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
MatthewNielsen27/site
May 2019 - Mar 2024
Repository for my personal website
Contributions:2 PRs, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
ecesociety/ECE250-test-cases
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
Crowd-sourced test cases for ECE250 programming labs
Contributions:23 commits, 13 PRs, 21 pushes in 2 months
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