DB Daniel Bryars I like applying science and engineering to build things

Engineer. Programmer. Founder.

I like building things.

Formula One R&D. Thirteen years co-founding a B2B SaaS company, scaling it to £8M ARR and 40 staff, and selling it. An MSc in AI with Distinction. Now a staff engineer working on warehouse robotics.

See things CV GitHub
Close-up of a 3D-printed cycloidal joint on a home-built robot arm.
Robot arm
A curved weathering-steel balustrade on a terrace overlooking fields.
Corten balustrade
Bright orange sparks from hardened steel being machined on a lathe.
Hardened steel
A wall-sized bookcase filled with books, with a rolling ladder.
Wall of books
A CV packaged like a 1990s boxed software product, on a bookshelf.
CV in a box
£8M ARR co-founded Aeriandi, scaled it to 40 staff as hands-on CTO, sold it
Formula One R&D at Red Bull Racing, build programme management at Jaguar Racing
MSc AI, Distinction robot learning: MuJoCo, teleoperation, policies tested on real hardware
29 years embedded C to Kubernetes, engine test rigs to warehouse robots

What ties it together

I like applying science and engineering to build things.

Software, hardware, and the parts in between.

Selected things

Some useful, some unnecessary, most over-engineered.

Robots, steel, timber, electronics. Some are even finished.

Daniel and his son beside the finished timber top for a motorised standing desk.

Woodwork / family workshop

Motorised Standing Desk

A height-adjustable desk built with my son: timber, test-fitting and short build clips.

Open project
A curved corten steel balustrade installed on a terrace overlooking fields.

Weathering steel / FEA

Corten Balustrade

A curved terrace balustrade designed at the pub, fabricated in steel and finished by the weather.

Open project
Bright orange sparks flying from hardened steel being machined on a lathe.

Gratuitous sparks

Lathe Sparks

Hardened steel, a CBN insert on an old Colchester Chipmaster.

Open project
A boxed CV designed like vintage software packaging.

A tiny bit ridiculous

CV in a Box

A physical CV packaged like old software. It took far longer than writing a CV would have.

Open project
Finished vintage string lights hanging across ceiling beams.

Lighting / wiring

Vintage String Lights

Custom string lights: warm filament bulbs, twisted cable and antique style fittings.

Open project
Finished black spiral staircase installed beside a house and timber pergola.

Architecture / fabrication

Spiral Staircase

Originally from an old mill in Bradford, it now has a new home.

Open project
RL

AI / robotics

Robot learning MSc work

MuJoCo simulation, OpenVR teleoperation, multimodal datasets, PyTorch policies, evaluation harnesses and physical robot testing.

View research repo
ESP32

Embedded / control

Active speakers and control projects

ESP32, reverse-engineered USB protocols, home automation and audio hardware.

See speaker repo
MODE 7

Retro computing

Ceefax for a 50th

I'll leave this up: it's a fun invite to my 50th birthday.

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See projects

Contact

Happy to talk

Based in Oxford, UK. The quickest route is email or LinkedIn.

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