James Hryniw
Senior Software Engineer at Waymo
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Hryniw is a senior software engineer and robotics generalist with 11 years of experience specializing in planning and evaluation for driverless vehicles, now working on model evaluation at Waymo. He has led cross-functional teams at Cruise to invent a patent-pending ML-based simulation fidelity metric and delivered tooling that boosted test precision from 30% to 72% by auto-converting tests to closed-loop. Comfortable across the stack, James built data mart and ETL systems handling multi-terabyte census datasets and earlier developed fleet management and web platforms in production. He combines academic training from the University of Alberta with hands-on field experience (from streetlight systems to autonomous planners), enabling pragmatic solutions for opaque ML systems. Based in San Francisco, he enjoys tackling hard automation problems and turning complex measurement challenges into operational KPIs. An engineer who moves seamlessly between research-grade metrics and production infrastructure, he’s as likely to ship an API as he is to prototype a new simulation fidelity signal.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Software Engineering at University of Alberta
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
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android-studio1
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
CopyEverything/CopyEverything-Android
Jan 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:25 commits, 22 pushes, 4 branches in 5 months
recipedia-uofa/recipedia
Jan 2020 - Oct 2020
Empowering people to make delicious, healthy homemade meal choices
Contributions:112 PRs, 89 pushes, 114 branches in 8 months
recipesrecipedelicioushealthyempowering
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