Mats Karlsson

I'm a Ph.D. research scientist and software engineer with 25+ years building custom applications that interface with real hardware—cameras, sensors, motors, and data acquisition systems. I work with startups and research teams who need robust software when standard solutions fail at handling the timing and concurrency challenges of real-time systems.

My depth is in asynchronous programming, multi-threaded architecture, and hardware integration using C++ and Python. I design signal processing pipelines, real-time data visualization, and GUI applications for scientific instruments. I've also created Moleculix, 3D molecular visualization software. I understand where AI-assisted code breaks down: concurrency, timing, and device handling require hand-designed, battle-tested patterns that no model gets right consistently.