# Esther Ling

> Software Engineer at Nuro

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/estherling

I’m a software engineer working on self-driving vehicles, with a general interest in the robotics field. I’ve worked with factor graphs, map representations and sensor calibration. I also have a keen interest in continually improving my ability to write code that is maintainable, safe and scalable.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Nuro
Jan 2022 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Online calibration, 3D reconstruction

### Software Engineer @ Optimus Ride
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Greater Boston Area
- Core C++ designer for the road network layer and user-tooling.
- Project lead for core improvements to the in-house calibration stack (camera, lidar) to meet perception accuracy requirements.
- Core contributor to in-house pose graph stack; shipped IMU factor (gtsam library) feature with ability to update IMU pose for the factor graph calibration stack.

### Research Assistant @ Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Atlanta Area
Worked in a lab focusing on AI for Smart Cities, on various tasks such as traffic sign localisation using visual SLAM and development of a C# app for making camera calibration easier.

### Software R&D Intern @ Panasonic Automotive
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Atlanta Area
Visual SLAM

### Graduate Research Assistant @ Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Atlanta Area
Data-driven Master's Thesis project:
- Conducted research on signalized traffic using matrix decomposition techniques (1 publication).
- Designed and created an SQL database of sensor event traffic data (>135 GB).
- Built a pipeline for extracting and processing data.
- Implemented code for dynamic mode decomposition.

Tools used:
Python (Numpy, Pandas, Plotly), SQLite, SQL, REST API

### Machine Learning Intern @ S.F. EXPRESS CO. LTD
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Developed an anomaly detection model on time-series data to flag customer churn.

### Edu Engineer @ TechSource Systems
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Tech Lead for MathWorks Track under Innovate Malaysia Design Competition 2015
- Mentored undergraduate student teams

Developed Academic Demos (available on MathWorks File Exchange):
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/profile/authors/6650597-techsource-technical-team

### Technical Support Engineer @ TechSource Systems
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Selected Projects:
- Set up a single-node pseudo-distributed Hadoop cluster in Linux and integrated with MATLAB to benchmark MATLAB mapreduce on Hadoop, MATLAB Distributed Computing Server (MDCS) and Desktop


## Education
### Master’s Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

### Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Power Engineering
Curtin University Malaysia


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lingesther
- Portfolio: https://lefthandwriter.github.io

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Last updated: 2026-03-31