Nicolai Spohrer
Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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SeniorNicolai Spohrer is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience, currently building Planning & Control systems for autonomous driving at NVIDIA from Stuttgart. He specializes in modern C++, Python, Linux, and Docker, applying systems-level rigor from robotics to broader open-source projects. Known for pragmatic engineering, he balances low-latency, safety-critical development with practical tooling and containerized workflows. Colleagues rely on him to bridge research prototypes and production-grade code, particularly in motion planning and control stacks. Outside of work he explores diverse OSS contributions, bringing a curiosity for “whatever comes along” that often surfaces useful cross-domain solutions.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (115)
weighted-graphs10
nonlinear9
matlab9
django9
ipopt8
connected-components8
symbolic-manipulation8
code-generation8
octave8
nginx8
3d-printer8
android-app8
single-instance8
dijkstra7
optimization7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nspo/pyvisualcompare
Oct 2018 - Feb 2021
Graphical tool to help monitor visual changes on web pages
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 2 years 4 months
monitorpythonweb-appgraphicalchanges
nspo/microbuf
Jan 2020 - Apr 2021
Data serialization toolchain for computers and embedded systems with C++ or MATLAB support
Contributions:1 release, 53 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 2 months
cppdata-serializationembeddedmatlabtoolchain
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