Carl Messina
Chief Engineer at Rapid Automation Design
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolCarl Messina is a Chief Engineer with 11+ years building complex embedded systems, leading Rapid Automation Design’s delivery of high-speed digital PCB designs, multi-gigabit transceivers, FPGA firmware, and embedded software. He combines hands-on technical depth—from schematic-to-production hardware design to real-time firmware—with leadership guiding turnkey projects for clients like Disney Imagineering, Raytheon, and L3Harris. Prior roles at Georgia Tech Research Institute and Camgian reflect a strong research-to-product trajectory and experience in defense and commercial signal solutions. Based in San Jose, he balances rigorous MS-level electrical engineering training with a playful maker mentality—summed up on GitHub as “I make robots do robot things”—which surfaces in practical robotics and automation work.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Central Florida
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Github Skills (190)
python10
deep-learning10
robotics10
ml10
neural-network10
scalable10
data-science10
verification10
tensorflow10
gazebosim10
machine-learning10
robot10
deep-neural-networks10
robot-simulator10
robotics-simulation10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
GT-RAIL/puzzlebot_interface
Jun 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:73 commits, 31 pushes, 4 branches in 7 months
cjds/webviz
Jan 2020 - May 2021
web-based visualization libraries
Contributions:21 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 4 months
reactjavascriptweb-baseddata-visualizationvisualization
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