Eli Byrd
Senior Software Engineer at Mars Rover Design Team
Rolla, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEli Byrd is a Senior Software Engineer with 5 years of hands-on experience building mission-critical autonomy and simulation software for competitive and field robotics. He architects and implements high-fidelity sensor simulation in Unreal Engine 5—stereoscopic vision, point cloud generation, and depth maps—integrated directly with on-rover autonomy stacks across AMD64 and ARM64 NVIDIA GPU environments. Eli blends low-level C++ and embedded systems experience with Python, TensorFlow, and Docker-based CI to deliver reliable, testable systems that run without the luxury of a “restart the server.” He has led small engineering teams through design, code review, and cross-discipline integration, helping his rover place 4th globally at the University Rover Challenge. Beyond robotics, he brings precise attention to data quality from annotation work and real-world live-audio technical leadership, showing adaptability across distributed software and high-pressure operational roles. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture that prioritizes reliability in constrained, real-world deployments.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Little Rock Central High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Missouri University of Science and TechnologyCertificate in Swift Coding, Computer Science, 4.00, Certificate in Swift Coding, Computer Science, 4.00 at Arkansas State University
Github Skills (55)
asynchronous10
async10
low-latency10
logger10
latency10
logging10
high-performance10
traversal9
cross-platform9
python9
machine-learning9
gpu9
deep-learning9
cpp9
wake-on-lan8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
MissouriMRDT/RoveComm_CPP
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
The MRDT RoveComm Communication Library written in C++. For high level systems, not microcontrollers.
Contributions:44 reviews, 61 PRs, 175 pushes in 1 year 9 months
MissouriMRDT/Autonomy_Software
May 2023 - Apr 2025
Autonomous Traversal and Object Detection for Rovers
Contributions:182 reviews, 321 PRs, 985 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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