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I am interested in bringing robots into the real world in ways that benefit social infrastructure. I have spent recent years focused on autonomous driving, but I have research experience helping robots fly, drive, and swim without hitting things.

Waymo

Experience

Staff Software Engineer, Planning (2021 - Present)

I am currently at Waymo, working to make driving safer, smoother, and smarter with machine learning.

Nuro

Experience

Tech Lead Manager / Staff Software Engineer, Motion Planning (2020 - 2021)
Tech Lead, Motion Planning (2019 - 2020)
Software Engineer, Planning (2018 - 2019)

Some cool stuff

Promoted to Staff Engineer in 2 years
Recognized in Business Insider’s 2021 list of “Rising stars in autonomous vehicles”

At Nuro, I led the team responsible for conceptualization, validation, and deployment of new features and architectures for decision making, trajectory optimization, and simulated agent behavior. I set technical direction and ensured cross-functional alignment to scale up the team and achieve major milestones.

Our team’s work helped demonstrate our robot, R2’s, ability to operate autonomously without a driver nor an operator in a chase-car in Arizona, California, and Texas.

We also helped perform contactless deliveries for temporary COVID-19 hospitals and offer autonomous pizza deliveries to real Dominos' customers.

X, the moonshot factory

Experience

Software Engineering Intern, Self-Driving Car Project (2016)

At X, I worked on the planning team to develop numerical optimization algorithms and C++ software for a self-driving passenger car. The initiative later spun out into Waymo, an independent Alphabet subsidiary.