James Rundquist
Technical Lead Manager at Waymo
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJames Rundquist is a Technical Lead Manager in San Francisco with 14 years of experience building and leading teams that deliver scalable, cost-effective software for robotics and self-driving systems. He currently leads efforts to understand Waymo Driver behavior at scale and previously led tooling for Everyday Robots, designing high-performance visualization, inspection, and labeling systems using React, TypeScript, WebAssembly, WebGL, Go, and C++. A mentor-focused leader, he repeatedly hires, grows, and shapes teams to tackle complex operational and data-visualization challenges for production robotics. His background spans startups and product-led firms—from founding CourseShark to building web and server systems at Nest—giving him both entrepreneurial grit and deep systems chops. Unusually, he combines hands-on low-level tooling (WASM/C++) with front-end UX and cloud-native deployment, enabling cross-stack solutions that bridge research and operational needs.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
CSE, Computer Science and Engineering, CSE, Computer Science and Engineering at Arizona State UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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Github contributions (5)
courseshark/courseshark
May 2012 - Mar 2014
Contributions:774 commits in 1 year 9 months
jrundquist/glass-nest
May 2013 - Jun 2013
Contributions:57 commits in 29 days
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