Fred Zyda
Staff Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFred Zyda is a Staff Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 14 years of experience building production systems that bridge robotics, perception, and optimization. He has led calibration automation at scale for consumer hardware, wrote energy-optimizing path planners for Zipline’s fixed-wing delivery drones, and now drives engineering at Google. His background spans research-grade algorithm development, factory automation, and hands-on systems engineering—skills reinforced by MS and BS degrees in computer science. An off-hours tinkerer and racer, he owns and races a 1983 Toyota Celica Supra in endurance events, which speaks to his practical problem-solving and willingness to iterate through crashes and repairs.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of California San Diego
Github Skills (23)
weather10
vector10
weather-data10
data-formats9
python9
raster9
geospatial9
gdal9
gis9
rasterio9
geotiff9
translator9
apache-beam8
java8
beam8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
fredzyda/rcp_scripts
Jul 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
fredzyda/rcp_data
Apr 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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