Adam Sylvester
Software Engineer at Latitude AI
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Sylvester is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years building high-performance C++ systems for autonomy, remote sensing, and defense applications. Based in Ann Arbor, he architects and implements resimulation and image-processing pipelines that scale across hundreds of machines, leveraging AWS, MPI, and careful I/O and memory optimization to reduce cost and latency. At Argo AI and Latitude AI he bridged autonomy teams and cloud/platform engineers to deliver reproducible offboard testing, safety metrics, and cost-modeling tooling that enabled nightly regression checks and faster iteration. He favors writing modular, reusable code from scratch while pragmatically reusing legacy components unless a rewrite meaningfully improves performance or maintainability. A hands-on technical lead, he’s comfortable in both C++ and Python and has repeatedly identified and resolved subtle system bottlenecks—S3 I/O and database hotspots among them—to improve reliability at scale.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Engineering at University of MichiganSaline
c++, python
Github Skills (48)
coda10
portable10
modular10
rewrite10
insar10
sar10
manifold10
nitro10
transmission10
brain-computer-interface10
ligature10
imagery10
xml10
extensible10
cpp10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ngageoint/six-library
May 2011 - Sep 2019
Sensor Independent XML Library
Contributions:13 releases, 1510 commits, 318 PRs in 8 years 5 months
sentinel-1sarxml-libraryradarinsar
mdaus/nitro
Jun 2011 - Jul 2019
NITRO (NITFio, "R" is a ligature for "Fi") is a full-fledged, extensible library solution for reading and writing the National Imagery Transmission Format (NITF), a U.S. DoD standard format. It is written in cross-platform C, with bindings available for other languages.
Contributions:456 commits, 122 PRs, 139 pushes in 8 years 2 months
nationaltransmissionbrain-computer-interfaceligatureimagery
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