Adam Pollack
Staff Software Engineer at Zoox
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Pollack is a Staff Software Engineer at Zoox with 11 years of experience building perception systems for autonomous vehicles, progressing from Software Engineer to Senior and now Staff within the same team. He combines a Master’s in Robotics from Northwestern with a Mechanical Engineering bachelor’s from Lehigh, giving him a strong blend of physical systems intuition and machine learning expertise. His background includes applied deep learning and computer vision work at Knightscope and early full‑stack development, demonstrating both research-savvy and product-focused engineering. Based in New Jersey, he’s comfortable moving models from research into production-grade perception pipelines and often bridges algorithm design with practical deployment constraints. Colleagues would note his steady internal progression at Zoox as evidence of impact across both technical depth and system-level reliability.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Robotics, Master’s Degree, Robotics at Northwestern UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering at Lehigh University
Github Skills (6)
htc-vive9
computer-vision5
machine-learning4
caffe4
deep-learning3
gpu3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apollack11/vive_tracker_loc
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
A software package to determine the pose of the HTC Vive Tracker with only an HTC Vive Lighthouse
Contributions:43 commits, 23 pushes, 3 branches in 26 days
htc-vive
apollack11/apollack11.github.io
Sep 2016 - Apr 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 102 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 8 months
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