Summary
Alex Carrillo is a software and algorithms leader with 17 years of experience building perception, control, calibration, and localization systems for robotics and aerospace applications. Based in San Francisco, he has led teams and shipped mission-critical software for lunar and planetary rovers, autonomous skid-steer forklifts for solar construction, and ground-breaking agricultural robots. A pragmatic C++17 and Python engineer who also codes in ES6, he blends low-level embedded work with high-level planning and motion algorithms and has owned calibration toolchains and production control loops. His background spans SpaceX flight-test automation to building vehicle stacks from kinematics to state estimation, and he’s known for turning complex sensor and calibration problems into robust, field-ready solutions. Notably, he pairs hands-on algorithm design with product ownership—e.g., delivering web-enabled calibration workflows and under-actuated, power-aware control for real-world deployments.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Yale University
Stuyvesant High School