One engineer, frontier AI / United Kingdom

Dylan Thanushyan

Over twenty years delivering vehicle programmes at JLR, Aston Martin, McLaren and NIO, among others, now running with frontier AI. That is the offer.

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The Shift

One Pair of Hands

Most AI never survives proof of concept. Demos run on the happy path, and the exceptions nobody documented are what break it at volume.

I came up through motorsport and have taken prototypes into production at low‑volume prestige, high‑volume luxury and EV‑startup pace. That peripheral vision, now put to work with frontier AI: one pair of hands, the output of a team.

Track Record

The Numbers

20+ years
8 countries lived and worked in
20+ vehicle programmes
£250M+ programme value delivered
30% AI-augmented engineering efficiency gained
50+ AI agents, automations & products

Off The Clock

The Driver

Former professional racing driver. Now an occasional privateer, between coding sessions.

The same discipline runs through everything I do: preparation, precision, and pace, in that order.

Daylight study of the race car cabin: red harness and roll cage against the circuit

Capabilities

Prototype to Production.

Lead practice

I architect the complete solution, build it, and carry it through industrialisation to scale. Industrialisation is the part that usually gets handed to someone else.

Right now that means leading the charge on AI transformation for a £1bn-a-year global engineering and digital services company, alongside its Head of AI: platform and framework decisions, model selection, data security, and upskilling the engineers who will use it. Every facet, end to end.

The working example is the page you are on: concept, film, code and deployment in one weekend, in spare time. Automotive first; the same practice travels to motorsport, defence, and hard-tech.
Vehicles, systems and components fail in the seams: between domains, suppliers and programmes. Chassis to powertrain, body to electrical, software to ADAS: deep in each, fluent across the whole vehicle. Every one of those seams has bitten me at least once. That is why I know where to look.
I take the cross-domain problems nobody wants to own, from engineering to finance, legal, compliance and export control: the operating model and cadence that make complex programmes land on time. Teams of 30+ engineers, Tier-1 suppliers, board-level reporting.

One silhouetted engineer before a vast wall of glowing agent-team constellations — AI that ships in the vehicle, not the deck. Strategy, toolchain, and the delivery muscle that puts models into engineering workflows and vehicles, under one hand.

A full-vehicle view keeps chassis, powertrain, body, electrical, software and ADAS honest with each other, from concept through sign-off.

One figure on a high gantry overlooking a night assembly line of red status beacons — Programmes are won by operating rhythm, not heroics. Cadence, decision rights, supplier alignment, and a team that knows exactly what done means.

The Marques

Selected Work

Four engagements across a decade: chassis hardware owned across five vehicle lines, an industry-first aluminium structure for the first electric Jaguar, motion control for halo products like the Range Rover Sport SV, and a year embedded inside JLR's Austrian production partner as its technical authority.
Trusted with the chassis structures of every car Aston Martin was making: DB11, DBS, Vantage, and the DBX, the marque's first SUV, from a blank sheet.
Production engineering at McLaren's Woking HQ, across every car they built at the time, from the MP4-12C to the P1: bare carbon tub to customer-ready, holding the marque's standards on the line.
Two years embedded in Shanghai as the single interface for everything chassis across two EV platforms: autonomy features delivered years ahead of the European market, and the technical foundation for what became NIO's SkyRide intelligent chassis.
Most recent programme. Led and delivered.

Full accountability for the UK's most exclusive and security-sensitive vehicle programme: a £15M+ armoured vehicle for heads-of-state use, taken from concept to implementation under military export controls.

Design confidence high enough to skip prototypes and cut straight to production tooling.