Alan Olsen
Software Engineer Manager at Zoox
Pleasanton, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlan Olsen is a solutions-oriented software engineering manager with 11 years of experience building full-stack systems across robotics, automation, and consumer web at scale. He led Facebook’s first data-center robotics efforts—shipping mobile and telepresence robots, real-time multi-camera WebRTC UIs, and internal robotics APIs—while managing and mentoring engineering teams to promotions. His work combines hands-on ROS, Python, C++ and front-end React/JavaScript development with pragmatic architecture choices that cut costs (e.g., sharing robots across suites) and dramatically increased operational throughput and audit frequency. Now at Zoox, he applies that robotics and systems expertise to autonomous vehicle engineering and team delivery. Notably, he has a track record of translating research-grade robotics (IMU/LIDAR, IK, MoveIt) into reliable production services and training materials that accelerate team ramp-up.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at Utah State UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at San Diego State UniversityBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Brigham Young University
American Sign Language, English
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Github contributions (5)
allProgramming/luckyGraves
Jan 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:19 commits, 18 pushes, 1 comment in 4 months
allProgramming/familyTreeTools
Feb 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
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