Eric Westman
Software Engineering Manager at Latitude AI
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Westman is a Software Engineering Manager with 11 years of hands-on experience building and scaling localization and mapping systems for autonomous vehicles across aerial, underwater, and ground domains. He currently leads the Localization team at Latitude AI and previously drove map alignment and pose-graph optimization at Argo AI, delivering up to 10x speedups and major accuracy improvements in production pipelines. His expertise spans SLAM, state estimation, and sensor fusion using cameras, lidars, IMUs, sonars, and RGB-D sensors, grounded in MS and PhD training in robotics from Carnegie Mellon. Known for turning research-grade algorithms into robust, production-ready systems, he also has experience stepping into interim leadership roles to guide cross-functional teams.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Franklin W. Olin College of EngineeringMaster of Science - MS, Robotics, Master of Science - MS, Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (3)
robotics4
event-driven2
ruby2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
mbarnes1/vehicle-drift
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:20 commits in 21 days
ericwestman/16711-KDC
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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