Derek Adams
Senior Manager, Calibration
Pasadena, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Adams is a senior engineering leader with 11+ years building real-time perception, calibration, and large-scale SLAM systems for autonomous navigation, currently leading Calibration at Zoox in Pasadena. He combines deep hands-on C/C++ and Python expertise with practical experience implementing non-linear optimization for multi-sensor LIDAR and camera calibration and scaling distributed mapping infrastructure. His background at JPL gave him rare exposure to spacecraft avionics, real-time simulation, and hardware interface modeling, which informs robust systems engineering under strict timing and safety constraints. Known for mentoring teams and evolving software architecture, he bridges algorithmic research and production-quality concurrent software. An uncommonly broad skill set spanning optimization, scheduler-aware real-time designs, and avionics simulation helps him deliver dependable perception stacks in safety-critical environments.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Cal Poly Pomona
Github Skills (13)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
juugcatm/bazel_environment
Jun 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:16 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
juugcatm/mudbase
Apr 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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