James Goin
Burlingame, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Goin is an engineering design leader with seven years of hands-on experience taking embedded systems from concept to production, specializing in electric vehicles, autonomous systems, teleoperations, and IoT. He has led and scaled multidisciplinary teams at startups and large robotics efforts—directing vehicle integration, controls, uPod delivery robotics, and embedded uECU systems—while managing the end-to-end software and hardware integration lifecycle. His background includes systems-level firmware at Tesla, BMS prototyping, and building BLE-based localization prototypes that spun out into a product, demonstrating a knack for turning research and prototypes into commercial outcomes. Comfortable at the intersection of software, firmware, and vehicle systems, he also brings academic teaching experience in engineering design and a track record mentoring large student teams on award-winning mobility projects. Based in Burlingame, CA, James combines rigorous technical depth (MS, ECE) with practical production delivery and cross-functional leadership.
7 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 3.7, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 3.7 at University of Washington
English, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
autonomy10
can-bus10
autonomous-vehicles10
apollo10
self-driving-car10
ord10
controller10
autonomous-driving10
python9
machine-learning9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
james-goin/zipline_sw_take_home
Mar 2024 - Mar 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
james-goin/apollo
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
An open autonomous driving platform
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
autonomousmachine-learningautonomous-drivingmavlinkdriving
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