Daniel Sun
Software Engineer at Zoox
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Sun is a robotics-focused software engineer with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA and a decade of experience building real-world autonomy systems. He has developed safety-critical motion planning and control software for autonomous vehicles at Zoox and shipped perception, mapping, and navigation stacks for GPS-denied, rough-terrain robots at OffWorld. At UCLA’s RoMeLa he bridged trajectory optimization, state estimation, and soft real-time control to bring bipedal humanoid research onto hardware, and he has a track record of turning academic algorithms into production-ready systems. Based in San Francisco, he blends deep controls and optimization expertise with hands-on systems engineering, firmware-level communication design, and curriculum development—an uncommon mix that helps him translate complex research into operational autonomy.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Spanish, English
Github Skills (38)
matlab9
controlling9
sdk9
robot9
arduino8
ros8
package8
java8
robotics8
csharp8
labview8
nonlinear7
octave7
python7
cpp7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
RoMeLaUCLA/robot-player
Feb 2018 - Mar 2021
A wrapper library with simple, easy-to-use interfaces for controlling robots.
Contributions:106 commits, 16 PRs, 60 pushes in 3 years 2 months
roboticscontrollingwrapper-libraryinterfacesrobots
danielasun/pygrade
Apr 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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