Chris Ferone
Principal Engineer, Emerging Energy Systems at Toyota North America
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolChris Ferone is a Principal Engineer specializing in robotics and emerging energy systems with nine years of experience building autonomy and powertrain software for electric and hybrid vehicles. He leads development of path planning, path following, and teleoperation for Pratt Miller’s TMT robotic vehicles and now drives emerging energy initiatives at Toyota North America. Equally fluent in model‑based design (Simulink/Stateflow) and traditional languages (C++, Python), he has written tens of thousands of lines in ROS and deploys autonomy on headless Linux systems. His background spans control theory, motor and supervisory control for EVs, and rapid-prototyping on MotoHawk, Raptor and dSPACE platforms, enabling him to create plant models and controllers before hardware is available. A hands-on team lead and Git expert, he champions code quality, peer review workflows, and automated regression testing. Less obvious: he’s conducted detailed market surveys of ruggedized computing platforms, giving him practical insight into field-deployable autonomy hardware.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, M.S. Mechanical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University
Spanish, Chinese
Stackoverflow
21reputation
6kreached
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Github Skills (12)
python-path6
python6
ros5
robot5
robotics4
visual-studio-code-extension3
self-driving-car2
machine-learning2
network2
operating-system1
visual-studio-code1
visual-studio1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chris-ferone/CarND-Capstone
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:11 pushes, 3 branches in 21 days
chris-ferone/solar
Sep 2023 - Sep 2023
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 25 days
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