Peter Dolan
Research Engineer at NUNA INC.
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Dolan is a research engineer and manager with 12 years of experience leading ML teams to turn cutting-edge research into production impact, particularly in offline RL, safety, robustness, exploration, counterfactual estimation, and ML-for-systems. He has led and scaled teams at DeepMind, Waymo, and OpenAI, delivering high-stakes safety and simulation systems and managing organizations of 20+ engineers and researchers. Known for bridging deep research and practical deployment, he has driven billion-dollar incremental improvements and built high-performance learned simulators for long-tail, out-of-distribution safety scenarios. Based in Mountain View, he combines hands-on technical depth with program and engineering leadership—from founding PM and engineering functions at Nuna to managing AI safety teams. Unusually, he pairs rigorous mathematics training with a playful curiosity (cats in space), signaling both analytical rigor and a culture-minded leadership style.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BA Mathematics, BA Mathematics at University of California, BerkeleyBret Harte High School
French
Github Skills (70)
python10
etl10
automation10
mlops10
orchestration10
data-engineering10
scheduler10
elt10
music10
data-integration10
data-pipelines10
monitor10
data-science10
workflow-engine10
apache10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
peterjdolan/EGM96.jl
Sep 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:27 commits, 15 PRs, 20 pushes in 8 months
gravitationalearthgsfcnasanima
peterjdolan/incubator-airflow
May 2017 - Jul 2017
Apache Airflow (Incubating)
Contributions:20 pushes, 4 branches in 2 months
incubatingemrapachebig-dataspark
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