Rory Hughes is a Technical Director with 12 years' experience building advanced marine safety and autonomy systems from Edinburgh, blending hands-on engineering with leadership across startups and large R&D organisations. He progressed rapidly at Zelim from Senior Engineer to Technical Director, after impactful positions in positioning and research engineering at Huawei and systems engineering roles at Leonardo. Rory pairs a strong academic foundation—a Computer Science master's from the University of Edinburgh and a Physics degree from St Andrews—with practical experience in safety-critical and navigation technologies. He keeps a modest public code presence (archived repos on GitHub) suggesting a focus on proprietary or research-driven work rather than broad open-source visibility. Colleagues describe him as someone who translates complex sensor and autonomy requirements into pragmatic, deployable systems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at The University of Edinburgh
Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics at University of St Andrews
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