Hugo Slepicka
VP Of Engineering at BotCity
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHugo Slepicka is a VP of Engineering based in the San Francisco Bay Area with two decades of software engineering experience and 11 years in senior roles shaping secure, enterprise-scale automation. He leads engineering strategy at BotCity.ai, focusing on Python security, code governance, and governance/orchestration for AI-generated automation across organizations. Previously he built production-grade Python platforms for national labs—work that is now used at major facilities including CERN—and championed modern practices like Git, CI, and TDD across research groups. Hugo combines applied controls and instrumentation experience from synchrotron beamline environments with cloud and RPA developer experience, enabling reliable automation across desktop, web and legacy systems. He’s pragmatic about scaling secure developer experiences and is known for turning scientist-driven requirements into robust, deployable platforms. As a small oddity, he asks outreach to include the phrase “Crazy Squirrel” to filter automated messages.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist, Automation and control of industrial and agro-industrial process, Specialist, Automation and control of industrial and agro-industrial process at Universidade Estadual de CampinasBEng, Computer Engineering, BEng, Computer Engineering at Universidade São FranciscoTechnical, Information Systems, Technical, Information Systems at FIEC - Fundação Indaiatubana de Educação e Cultura
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (200)
testing10
bots10
automation10
crawler10
cpp10
modular10
tao10
webscraping10
rpa10
maestro10
python-interface10
scientific-visualization10
visualization10
pytest10
display-manager10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
hhslepicka/pcdswidgets
Dec 2018 - Jan 2021
LCLS PyDM Widget Library
Contributions:74 pushes, 32 branches, 6 tags in 2 years 1 month
widgetpythonpydmwidgetswidget-library
conda-forge/setuptools_dso-feedstock
Aug 2019 - Mar 2025
A conda-smithy repository for setuptools_dso.
Contributions:7 reviews, 12 PRs, 12 pushes in 5 years 7 months
setuptoolsdsocondasmithy
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