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Gundbert Scherf and the New Machinery of European Defence
A former German defence official is building Helsing across drones, aircraft and maritime systems. Gundbert Scherf's career traces a shift in European defence from buying technology to making it.
Torsten Reil and the Long Walk from Oxford to Helsing
A creature took its first steps in an Oxford computer simulation. Decades later, the biologist who built it is helping Europe put artificial intelligence into aircraft and other defense systems.
Niklas Köhler and the Bet Before the Turning Point
Before Europe’s defense debate changed, Köhler joined two unlikely partners to build Helsing. The physicist brought a machine learning company, a product instinct and questions about the industry he was entering.
Jon Gjengset
Jon Gjengset is a principal engineer at Helsing, Rust systems programming educator, and author of 'Rust for Rustaceans' (No Starch Press). He holds a PhD from MIT CSAIL where he built Noria, a streaming dataflow database system offering up to 20x performance improvements. A prolific live-coder and YouTube educator since 2018, Jon co-founded ReadySet (a $29M-funded database startup), contributed to the Rust ecosystem, and teaches at MIT's Missing Semester. Based in Oslo, Norway, he is one of the most respected voices in the Rust community.