Mikael Persson
Senior Software Engineer at Mapless AI
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMikael Persson is a senior software engineer with 15 years of multidisciplinary experience bridging mechatronics, robotics, and real-time systems, currently building remote vehicle control at Mapless AI from Pittsburgh. He led navigation and motion-planning efforts at Everyday Robots/Google X and earlier developed real-time trajectory planners for autonomous driving at Bosch, combining deep control theory with practical software engineering. A C++ power coder and ex-Googler, he contributes to well-regarded open-source projects like libcpr, improving security and maintainability with careful refactors and secure memory handling. His background spans full-stack hardware-software integration—from CAD and electronics to embedded and Linux-based control—backed by an aerospace PhD and top grades from McGill and Aalto. Known for turning complex dynamics and safety requirements into robust, production-ready systems, he brings rare expertise in both prototype mechanics and large-scale robotics software.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc.(Tech.), Space Robotics and Automation, With Distinction, M.Sc.(Tech.), Space Robotics and Automation, With Distinction at Aalto UniversityJoint Master Degree, Space Science and Technology, Joint Master Degree, Space Science and Technology at Luleå University of TechnologyB.Eng, Honours Mechanical Engineering, CGPA: 3.96/4.0; With Distinction; On Dean's Honour List, B.Eng, Honours Mechanical Engineering, CGPA: 3.96/4.0; With Distinction; On Dean's Honour List at McGill University
English, French, Swedish, German
Stackoverflow
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doxygen
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namespaces
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global-variables
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stl
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asynchronous
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linker
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Github Skills (25)
global-variables10
c-language10
http10
libcurl10
linker10
http-request10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
memory-allocation9
asynchronous9
multithreading9
library-design9
stl9
lambda9
eigen9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
libcpr/cpr
Feb 2025 - Feb 2025
C++ Requests: Curl for People, a spiritual port of Python Requests.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 PR, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Mikael primarily contributed to improving the security and maintainability of the cpr library. They replaced a custom secure string clearing mechanism with a `SecureString` class using a custom allocator to ensure data security. Additionally, the user addressed code formatting issues and fixed inefficient functions. The commits also include refactoring and minor style improvements throughout the codebase.
libcurlcpppythonc-plus-pluscurl
mikael-s-persson/templight-tools
Jan 2015 - Jul 2017
Tools to dealing with template instantiation profiles generated by templight.
Contributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 6 months
templatetemplate-instantiationinstantiation
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