Eric X
Sr. Manager, Robotics at Meta
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolEric X is a Sr. Manager in Robotics with 15 years of engineering leadership and hands-on experience spanning hardware, firmware, software, and technical marketing, credited with shipping 16+ consumer NPIs that drove $5.2B in revenue and a 42% market-share impact. At Meta he built the Infra Robotics team from lab to production, defining data center automation roadmaps and delivering AGV/AMR, sensing, and manipulation solutions that standardized robotics-as-a-service across multiple organizations. His background blends industrial R&D and academic research—having led ML and vision projects at MIT and earlier mobile-robot work at Shanghai Jiao Tong—bringing rigor in system design and predictive analytics to operational robotics. He holds advanced degrees from MIT, HKU, and SJTU, and is especially skilled at turning complex, multidisciplinary engineering challenges into repeatable product releases and field workflows. Notably, he mixes strategic product vision with low-level technical judgment, making him effective at both setting direction and troubleshooting the mechanics of deployment.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. System Design and Management, M.S. System Design and Management at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyM.S. System Design and Management, M.S. System Design and Management at MIT Sloan School of ManagementThe University of Hong Kong (HKU)M.S. Robotics Engineering, M.S. Robotics Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (8)
python9
machine-learning9
deep-learning8
tensorflow8
data-science7
neural-network7
ml5
deep-neural-networks5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ericxumit/Predictive_Maintenance
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
Chenye16/PdM
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:17 pushes in 15 days
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