Jonathan Cruz
Senior Software Engineer at KrattWorks
Greater Milwaukee United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Cruz is a Senior Software Engineer and PhD student focused on making autonomous robotic systems more efficient, reliable, and safe, with nine years of experience spanning embedded firmware, FPGA design, and systems software. He has applied hardware-software co-design expertise at The Johns Hopkins APL for space communications and at KEF Robotics, progressing from embedded engineer to senior applications engineer before joining KrattWorks. With graduate research at Harvard’s Edge Computing Lab and teaching experience in digital logic and computer architecture, he blends rigorous academic research with hands-on development for real-world robotic and computer vision workloads. Jonathan’s background includes building high-throughput FPGA receivers and SoC integrations for NASA-relevant projects, highlighting a talent for bridging low-level signal processing and higher-level autonomy stacks. Based in Greater Milwaukee, he brings a practical, cross-disciplinary approach that surfaces subtle system inefficiencies and turns them into robust, testable improvements.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Electrical Engineering, Master of Science - MS Electrical Engineering at Harvard University
English, SpanishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jjc795/lilred_management
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:53 pushes, 1 branch in 17 days
jjc795/occupancy_mapping_benchmarks
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
Benchmarks for occupancy mapping libraries in Robotics
Contributions:5 pushes in 13 days
roboticsoccupancymarinebenchmarkbenchmarks
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