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 (132)
webpages9
ipopt8
matlab8
nonlinear8
octave8
parameter-estimation8
crop-image8
single-instance8
code-generation7
django7
optimization7
android-client7
symbolic-manipulation7
drawing7
sparse-matrix7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nspo/graphs-cpp
Dec 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:18 commits, 26 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
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
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