Davis Roman
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Rivian
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavis Roman is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in Palo Alto with 11 years of embedded systems and consumer electronics experience, currently shaping vehicle software at Rivian after recent roles at Lucid Motors and Resideo. He combines deep Embedded Linux and hardware design expertise with strong Linux system administration and CI practice, enabling reliable, production-grade firmware and platform integrations. Davis holds advanced degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and has a long tenure building security- and safety-conscious embedded products dating back to Honeywell. He’s equally comfortable debugging low-level drivers and driving cross-functional release automation, often bridging hardware constraints with scalable software delivery. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture choices that trade off time-to-market against long-term maintainability. An engineer who moved from traditional security products into automotive, he brings a rare mix of consumer electronics rigor and vehicle-grade systems thinking.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at Hofstra UniversityMaster’s Degree, Electrical Engineering, Master’s Degree, Electrical Engineering at New York University - Polytechnic School of Engineering
Github Skills (40)
command-line10
syntax-highlighting10
cli10
linux9
rust9
bash8
chroot8
opensuse8
java8
ostree8
git8
linter8
jail8
shellcheck7
static-analysis7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
davisRoman/aosp-research
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:68 commits, 67 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
davisRoman/yocto-research
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:51 commits, 49 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
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