Matthew Nielsen

A bit about me.


                    I work as a Software Engineer at Formlabs, a company that makes industry-leading 3D printers.
                    My primary academic interests are machine learning, computational geometry, graphics, and 
                    computer architecture.


                    In my free time I like to take photos, cook fancy meals, collect
                    vinyl, 
                    and take care of my plants.


                    My preferred pronouns are he/him.

My work experience.


                        I believe that I'm a truly full-stack engineer, with experience ranging from distributed 
                        systems and machine learning to 3D rendering.

Software Engineer, Technical Lead

Cambridge, MA

Present


                                    I'm currently a technical lead on PreForm, Formlabs' free 3D print 
                                    preparation software. Over the last year I've spent my time doing machine-learning and also
                                    wrote a long-awaited feature allowing users to paint supports onto their 3D models. Lately, 
                                    I've been leading the development of more CAD-like features within PreForm.

Software Engineer

Cambridge, MA

May 16, 2020 - 2024


                                    Active member of the PreForm development team, Formlabs' free 3D print 
                                    preparation and CAD utility software.

Software Engineering Intern

Boston, MA

Jan 6, 2020 - May 16, 2020


                                    Worked on various areas of the PreForm app including support-truss generation, model minima rendering, 
                                    and large refactoring projects. Developed productivity tooling to support the devlivery of the PreForm
                                    app and printer firmware.

Software Engineering Intern

Boston, MA

May 6, 2019 - Aug 23, 2019


                                    Developed computational geometry algorithms in modern C++ to reconstruct broken 3D meshes. Excercised my
                                    meta-programming skills to architect a system responsible for generating thousands of lines of C++ classes.
                                    Wrote a laser path generation tool in Python to aid the materials development team in validating new materials.

Loblaw Digital Software Engineering Intern

Toronto, ON

Sept 6, 2018 - Dec 23, 2018


                                    Played a critical role in the development of an innovative chatOps
                                    platform written in Elixir that automates labour intensive workflows for teams in all corners of the business.
                                    Started and contributed to multiple open source software projects which will be 
                                    elaborated on here.

Loblaw Digital Software Engineering Intern

Toronto, ON

Jan 6, 2018 - Apr 23, 2018


                                    Developed a highlighly distributed and massively fault tolerant test result aggregation and visualization service.
                                    Written in Elixir with a highly parallelized architecture, the app processes and renders thousands of live data
                                    points a second.


                        In my free time I am also an active member of the open source community. You can check out some of the projects
                        that I have been involved with here.

On the Side.


                        In addition to my professional and academic work, I like to keep myself busy with a
                        number of initiatives in my free time.

Azohra Core Maintainer

Jan 6, 2018 - Present


                                    Azohra is an open source software organization that is passionate about 
                                    developing engineering productivity tooling. We develop tools that help simplify the process of
                                    encryption, 
                                    computer configuration, and
                                    automated testing. Feel free to
                                    check out and maybe even contribute to a few of our tools!

ECESociety Co-Founder

Jan 6, 2018 - Apr 23, 2018


                                    The ECE society is a student run organization that exists to promote a sense of community among ECE 
                                    students and serve as a platform to directly communicate their needs to the department. The ECE society
                                    organizes various social and professional events along with the creation of both academic and technical
                                    resources.

Let's stay in touch.

Wanna connect? You can reach me at any of the accounts below:


                            ${firstname}.${lastname}@hey.com

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