David Bulnes is a multidisciplinary Senior Software Engineer with over 16 years of hands-on experience bridging embedded hardware, robotics, automotive systems, and backend distributed services. Currently building Gen AI inference and training platforms at Netflix, he has a proven track record designing sensor-rich robotic systems and high-RPS external APIs for partner integrations. Comfortable from firmware to cloud, his toolset spans C/C++/Python/Java/Scala, ROS, gRPC, Docker, and complex sensor stacks (LiDAR, IMU, radar, CAN), and he routinely authors maintainable engineering standards and CI/CD pipelines. David excels at translating ambiguous customer requirements into production-grade integrations—having led vehicle integrations at DeepMap and commissioned fleets of industrial robots at Tesla. He combines technical leadership, vendor and cross-team communication, and hands-on prototyping, and is known for unifying hardware-software lifecycles to accelerate delivery. Based in Los Gatos, he pairs a relentless curiosity for new challenges with a track record of shipping robust systems across startups and large organizations.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS (incomplete//leave of absence), Computer Science, Master of Science - MS (incomplete//leave of absence), Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
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David Bulnes - Senior Software Engineer at Netflix