Michael May
SVP Of Engineering & Founding Engineer at Hayden AI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichael May is a seasoned software leader and founding engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in computer vision, mapping, and perception systems. As SVP of Engineering at Hayden AI, he scaled the engineering organization from a single engineer to over 100 and architected enforcement products that secured multi-hundred-million-dollar contracts in major US cities. His background blends rigorous research (PhD in Computer Vision) with hands-on systems engineering—from real-time cooperative HD mapping at Nauto to prototyping connected-vehicle sensors and CAN-bus integration at Honda and HERE. Michael is fluent in C++, Go, and Python and has a track record of turning sensor fusion and localization research into production-grade platforms deployed at city scale. Notably, he has repeatedly bridged academia and industry, moving novel mapping techniques from thesis work into real-world municipal and fleet deployments.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Vision, PhD Computer Vision at The University of Manchester
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Github Skills (56)
mocking10
testing9
objective-c9
python9
csharp9
php9
googletest9
keyframe9
cpp9
grpc8
ruby8
driver7
lidar-data7
lidar7
slam7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
maym86/ros_lidar_camera
Dec 2018 - Jun 2019
Test of lidar camera calibration with ROS
Contributions:30 commits, 7 PRs, 19 pushes in 6 months
camera-calibrationlidarros
maym86/face_pro_lapse
May 2014 - Aug 2018
Python script to detect faces in images and align them based on the largest face position and create a video of the images. A face time lapse.
Contributions:1 review, 48 commits, 1 PR in 4 years 3 months
python
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