Nick Hortovanyi
Founder at sdcar.ai
Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolNick Hortovanyi is a founder and technology leader with over two decades of experience building agile IT consultancies and delivering systems architecture, software and management consulting across industries from utilities and finance to government and education. He founded Toast Technology in 2002 to bridge business and technology, winning early recognition such as an IBM Software Pioneer Award and evolving the firm from reselling into high-value professional services and SaaS/cloud R&D. More recently he’s been founding CEO of multiple ventures, including stealth-mode sdcar.ai focused on training self-driving vehicle models with game-engine simulation and GPS Trust, combining deep technical skill with product-driven entrepreneurship. Nick pairs hands-on expertise in Java/Python, system architecture and AI/robotics nanodegrees with an executive ability to communicate strategy across boards and engineering teams. He’s known for anticipating industry shifts and deliberately upskilling teams so human capital turns information capital into strategic advantage.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
St Ignatius CollegeTech MentorArtificial Intelligence for Stock Trading, Artificial Intelligence for Stock Trading at UdacityCompany DIrectors Course, Company DIrectors Course at AICD
Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (64)
gps10
usb10
driver10
ros-driver10
ros10
operating-system9
msg8
git-workflow8
guice8
text-editor8
multiplayer7
testing7
agentic7
rust-lang7
tree-sitter7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
aussierobots/ublox_dgnss
May 2021 - May 2022
This usb based ROS2 driver is focused on UBLOX UBX messaging, for ZED-X20P, ZED-F9P and ZED-F9R devices. High precision data is available as well as moving base station configurations.
Contributions:14 releases, 10 reviews, 48 commits in 1 year
driverrosusbdgnssgps
aussierobots/ublox_ubx_arrow
Jul 2021 - Aug 2025
Utilities for converting ros2 ubx messages into Apache Arrow parquet files
Contributions:6 PRs, 7 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 1 month
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