Adam Brown
Vice President Of Engineering at Spartan Radar
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Brown is a seasoned engineering executive with 13 years focused on radar, sensing and autonomous vehicle systems, currently serving as Vice President of Engineering at Spartan Radar in Palo Alto. He helped pioneer Waymo’s radar capabilities after founding Google’s Self-Driving Car Project, building sensing hardware, millimeter-wave labs, and production test processes from the ground up. Adam blends hands-on RF and system architecture expertise (from Lockheed Martin to Google/Waymo) with people-first leadership that develops technical leaders and high-trust teams. He emphasizes data-driven decision making and rapid, pragmatic direction-setting to unblock projects and deliver customer-obsessed, long-lived solutions. Beyond executive roles, he has contributed full-stack UI work to robotics projects—connecting web frontends to rover hardware via LCM—highlighting a rare mix of system-level RF depth and practical software integration. Colleagues value his insistence on centering user needs throughout the development cycle while moving with engineering urgency.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
MS Electrical Engineering (Electromagnetics), MS Electrical Engineering (Electromagnetics) at Arizona State UniversityLockheed Martin Engineering Leadership Development Program
Github Skills (8)
javascript10
front-end-development10
vue10
vue-jsx10
waypoint9
sensor9
websocket8
python8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
umrover/mrover-workspace
Oct 2017 - May 2019
The University of Michigan Mars Rover Team workspace.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:125 commits, 40 PRs, 62 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the base station's user interface (GUI) for the Mars Rover project. Their work involved implementing and integrating various features such as camera controls, waypoint management, and sensor data displays. They also worked on connecting the GUI to the rover's hardware via LCM, enabling control of the rover's systems and visualization of telemetry data. The user demonstrated a good understanding of frontend web development using Vue.js, and integrating it with LCM messaging.
umichroboticscpplcmpython
adamcbrown/mrover-workspace
Oct 2017 - May 2019
The University of Michigan Mars Rover Team workspace.
Contributions:2 PRs, 53 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 7 months
roboticsmarsworkspacemichiganuniversity-of-michigan
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