Brian Filarsky is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in C++ systems and software architecture, currently advancing autonomous vehicle capabilities at Zoox. He blends aerospace-grade guidance, navigation, and controls expertise with practical skills in trajectory planning, kinematics, signal processing, and RF systems to turn real-world physics problems into robust software. Comfortable across Linux, Git, Python, Bazel, and CUDA, he focuses on performant, verifiable solutions where numerical correctness and low-level optimization matter. Brian’s background in aerospace engineering and roles at Raytheon and General Atomics inform a discipline for rigorous validation and testable designs that scales from embedded systems to vehicle-level planning. Known for strategic thinking and consensus-building, he often bridges engineering teams to deliver complex, safety-critical features on deadline.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Bachelor’s Degree Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at San Diego State University
Python Library for access to San Francisco Bay Area Transit Data
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