Bryan Zhao
Software Engineer at SpaceX
California, United States
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Top SchoolBryan Zhao is a software engineer with a multidisciplinary background in computer science and mechanical engineering, currently building software at SpaceX after an MS from Georgia Tech. He pairs hands-on experience across robotics, controls, motion planning, and ML/AI with a track record of deploying full-stack and vision-based systems during internships at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, BMW, and GTRI. Bryan has led projects that range from satellite-image scene-graph modeling for robot navigation to fine-tuning LLMs that cut outsourcing costs by $500K, showing both research depth and product impact. He also scaled training and tooling for operational users—developing pilot-training data applications and automating long-running test rigs—demonstrating a practical bent toward reliable, production-ready systems. Known for mentoring and teaching (Head TA for a 500+ student ML course), he brings a growth mindset and cross-disciplinary problem-solving to high-leverage engineering challenges.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Glastonbury High School
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Github Skills (8)
mechanical-engineering5
robot4
template-matching2
computer-vision1
python1
deep-learning1
image-processing1
sift1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bryzhao/course_projects
Mar 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
bryzhao/CV_edge_detection
Oct 2018 - Apr 2019
Computer vision projects.
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
pythonvisionsiftdeep-learningtemplate-matching
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