David Bulnes
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
Los Gatos, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid 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 TechnologyUniversity of California Santa Cruz
English, Italian, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
tipping9
v4l28
udev8
xlm8
aravis8
reddit7
stellar7
camera7
hardware6
imaging5
slack5
linux3
blockchain1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dbulnes/stellar-bot
Jan 2018 - Feb 2026
A stellar bot
Contributions:33 PRs, 98 pushes, 63 branches in 8 years 2 months
stellarbot
civilmaps/cm-hal
Mar 2017 - Aug 2017
Civil Maps Hardware Abstraction Layer
Contributions:9 commits, 11 PRs, 7 pushes in 5 months
hardware
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