Caleb Kirksey
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCaleb Kirksey is a Staff Software Engineer in Atlanta with 11 years of experience building scalable automation and developer-facing infrastructure, currently leading technical vision for Google's AI-powered developer tools. He has driven large performance wins—cutting a refactoring pipeline runtime by 78% and scaling an automated code bot to land 18,000 improvements per week—while designing services that automate code governance and reduce review friction. His background spans production systems at MailChimp and Salesforce, robotics and self-driving projects (including traffic-light detection work in Udacity’s CarND capstone), and hands-on mentoring and teaching from middle-school CS to interns at Google. Caleb blends deep systems and distributed-systems expertise with a knack for operationalizing machine learning features and developer UX, and he often surfaces non-obvious tooling wins that free engineering time for higher-value work.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 3.73, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 3.73 at Georgia Institute of TechnologyNanodegree, Self Driving Engineer, Nanodegree, Self Driving Engineer at Udacity
English
Github Skills (7)
computer-vision10
python10
ros10
autonomous-driving10
operating-system10
image-processing9
machine-learning9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
udacity/CarND-Capstone
Aug 2017 - Oct 2017
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:43 commits, 48 PRs, 27 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Caleb primarily worked on the traffic light detection system within the autonomous driving project. They added and modified code related to the `tl_detector.py` and `tl_classifier.py` files. The contributions involved integrating a traffic light classifier and adjusting configurations related to camera image size and position. Further work included creating a traffic light publisher and making related adjustments to the bridge.
ckirksey3/steering-prediction-with-keras
Dec 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:64 commits, 2 PRs, 59 pushes in 2 months
pytorchnanodegreeudacitydeep-learningcars
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