Summary
Pepe Melendez is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with 10 years of experience at the intersection of embedded systems, robotics, and automation. He currently leads embedded software and vehicle positioning at Waymo, after progressing through L3 and L4 software engineer roles there. As founder of Cirotec Automation, he built the automation and electronics department to deliver robotics solutions for industry. Earlier at Carbon Robotics, he developed field-oriented motor control firmware for a 6-DOF robotic arm and designed its industrial I/O PCB. His education spans an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech, a Mechatronics degree from Tecnol贸gico de Monterrey, and a nanotechnology internship at MIT. Based in the Bay Area, he blends hands-on hardware prototyping with scalable software leadership to turn ambitious automation ideas into reliable systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, 4.0, Bachelor's degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, 4.0 at Tecnol贸gico de Monterrey
Summer Internship, Nanotechnology, Summer Internship, Nanotechnology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology