Jorge Cañardo
Sr Software Engineer at Amazon
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJorge Cañardo is a senior software engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in robotics and back-end systems, currently based in Boulder and working at Amazon following the acquisition of Canvas Technology. He blends mathematical rigor (background in mathematics and an MSc in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from University of Colorado Boulder) with practical robotics engineering, building production systems for autonomous warehouse robotics. An active open-source contributor, Jorge implemented advanced ordination and visualization methods in the scikit-bio library and added robust visualization utilities to a widely used RViz tooling repo, showing fluency across Python and C++ codebases. Colleagues rely on him for turning complex statistical and spatial ideas into maintainable, well-tested code, and he brings an entrepreneurial bent from studies at ESADE and Oxford that informs product-focused engineering decisions.
14 years of coding experience
University of OxfordEntrepreneurship Immersion Program, Entrepreneurship Immersion Program at ESADE Business & Law SchoolUPC Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaIndustriales - Mates, Industriales - Mates at CFIS-UPCMaster of Science (MSc), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 4.0, Master of Science (MSc), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 4.0 at University of Colorado Boulder
Spanish, English, French
Github Skills (16)
bioinformatics10
statistics10
c-language10
eigen10
cprogramming-language10
python10
ros10
rviz10
statistic10
scientific-computing10
numpy10
geometry9
data-structure9
algorithm9
data-structures9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
scikit-bio/scikit-bio
Dec 2013 - Feb 2016
scikit-bio: a community-driven Python library for bioinformatics, providing versatile data structures, algorithms and educational resources.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:364 commits, 6 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jorge implemented core functionality for correspondence analysis, redundancy analysis, and canonical correspondence analysis within the scikit-bio library. Their work involved the creation of a base class for ordination results and the implementation of methods for biplot visualization. These contributions demonstrate a focus on the development of statistical methods and data analysis tools within the bioinformatics domain. The user also added example code to demonstrate the use of the developed classes.
bioinformaticsdata-structuredata-structurespythonscikit
PickNikRobotics/rviz_visual_tools
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
C++ API wrapper for displaying shapes and meshes in Rviz
Role in this project:Software Engineer
Software EngineerContributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 15 days
Contributions summary:Jorge primarily contributed to the development of a `publishWireframeCuboid` function. They added the function, then modified it to include color and address feedback by removing PCL mentions and simplifying parameters. The user also updated the existing code to show and test the function in use. They added and fixed code, demonstrating a strong understanding of the repository's code base.
cpprviz
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