Nathaniel Wetzel

Experience

1. Senior Staff Technical Lead Manager and Software Engineer

   Aurora

   Mar 2023 — Present · Pittsburgh, PA, US

   Currently leading and contributing to the small but mighty Simulation Apps team. This team which plays a pivotal role in ensuring Aurora’s autonomy software can be developed #safely,#quickly, and #broadly. On the Simulation Apps we develop interactive 4D web applications and services for creating, visualizing, and QA’ing high quality #simulation scenarios at scale. The team also owns tooling to produce and visualize high dimension monte carlo scenario variations, a core 3D atlas visualization library, and a reactive diff based state management library built on Mobx. Put together these tools and services empower our users to build the simulations critical to ensuring the safety of our #self-driving #trucks before they ever hit the road.Formerly leading and contributing to the Simulation Workflow Tools teams and scaling end to end MP sim creation. Responsible for the MP log/synthetic simulation creation web app, hierarchical tag taxonomy and metadata web app, and workflow management web apps/services for autonomy triage, HiL triage, and labeling.

Education

• University of Pittsburgh

  Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering

  2003 — 2008

Skills

• Software Design
• Perl
• Linux
• Systems Engineering
• Engineering
• Software Engineering
• Html
• Software Development
• Xml
• C++
• Javascript
• Uml
• Clearcase
• Java
• System Architecture
• Distributed Systems
• Agile Methodologies
• Object Oriented Design
• Testing
• C#
• Windows
• Eclipse
• C