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Matthew Woods

Robotics & Software Engineer

Edinburgh, UK · hello@matts.cv · LinkedIn · GitHub · matts.cv

I build software for machines that work in hard places — from flight search at web scale to robots that crawl ship hulls.

Experience

Robotics Engineer · Scrubmarine

2023 — Present

Edinburgh, UK

  • [PLACEHOLDER] Own the control and autonomy stack for a hull-cleaning ROV operating in live marine environments.
  • [PLACEHOLDER] Built sensor fusion for localisation against a moving, curved, low-visibility steel surface.
  • [PLACEHOLDER] Designed the operator interface: live telemetry, mission planning and replay.
  • [PLACEHOLDER] Took hardware from prototype to repeated commercial deployments in-harbour.

ROS 2 · C++ · Python · Embedded Linux · CAN · Computer Vision

Senior Software Engineer · Petroleum Experts

2021 — 2023

Edinburgh, UK

  • [PLACEHOLDER] Developed numerical simulation features in the IPM suite used by petroleum engineers worldwide.
  • [PLACEHOLDER] Implemented multiphase-flow solver improvements in performance-critical C++.
  • [PLACEHOLDER] Built tooling that halved regression-test turnaround for the modelling team.
  • [PLACEHOLDER] Worked directly with domain engineers to translate physics into shippable software.

C++ · C# · Numerical Methods · Win32 · Python

Software Engineer · Skyscanner

2018 — 2021

Edinburgh, UK

  • [PLACEHOLDER] Built and operated high-throughput backend services powering flight search for 100M+ monthly travellers.
  • [PLACEHOLDER] Cut p99 search latency by double digits through caching and query-planning improvements.
  • [PLACEHOLDER] Designed data pipelines feeding pricing and availability into the search index.
  • [PLACEHOLDER] Ran A/B experiments end-to-end, from hypothesis to shipped ranking changes.

Java · Python · AWS · Kubernetes · Kafka · Terraform

Education

MEng Mechanical Engineering · University of Edinburgh

2014 — 2018

[PLACEHOLDER] First Class Honours. Masters project in autonomous systems.

Skills

Robotics: ROS 2 · Control Systems · SLAM & Localisation · Sensor Fusion · CAN / Serial · Embedded C/C++

Software: C++ · Python · TypeScript · Java · Numerical Methods · Computer Vision

Infrastructure: Linux · AWS · Docker · Kubernetes · CI/CD · Terraform