Ian Sherman
Staff Software Engineer at Space-ng
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Sherman is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with a decade of experience building robotics and creative-technology systems that bridge software rigor and physical hardware. He has led and scaled engineering teams and platforms—from founding Formant’s cloud infrastructure for teleoperation and fleet management to directing engineering at X/Google’s robotics efforts—while remaining a hands-on developer in C++, Go, and distributed systems. Ian excels at solving thorny real-world problems involving vision, controls, latency, and heterogeneous hardware, with recent work enabling vision-based navigation for a CLPS lunar lander. His background spans film and live-event robotics to aerospace, combining deep systems design with practical functional-safety and real-time engineering. Colleagues know him for clear writing, strong communication, and an uncommon focus on the “big beautiful physical world” as a design constraint. He brings multidisciplinary curiosity and a track record of turning ambitious, hardware-constrained problems into production-ready software.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Brown University
Chinese, Spanish, English
Github Skills (64)
portable10
grpc-node10
php10
tractor10
raycasting10
pangolin10
version-control10
interaction10
grpc-web10
python-bindings10
rapid10
twirp10
geometry9
nestjs9
robotics9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
isherman/tractor
May 2020 - Jun 2021
autonomous electric tractor for market growers and researchers
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 9 PRs in 1 year 1 month
pythonautonomoustractorresearcherselectric
farm-ng/farm-ng-cmake
Jan 2023 - Aug 2023
Farm-ng cmake macros, reusable for c++ projects and super builds.
Contributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 10 PRs in 6 months
cppcmakemacrosbuildsfarm
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