Kerrick Staley
Research Fellow (Constellation Astra Program)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKerrick Staley is a research-focused software engineer with a decade of experience building reliable, high-performance systems across industry and research labs, now contributing to the Constellation Astra Program at Redwood Research and the Berkman Klein Center. He has deep backend and ML engineering experience from roles at Anthropic, Jane Street, Lyft, and Google, where he operated services at hundreds of thousands QPS and petabyte scale before pivoting away from SRE work. His open-source contributions to the widely used OSRM routing engine demonstrate hands-on expertise in map-matching and routing algorithms that improve accuracy and efficiency. Kerrick combines rigorous academic roots in computer engineering and mathematics with practical product and research impact, and he brings a rare mix of production-grade systems skills and research-oriented curiosity to safety and autonomy projects.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Iowa State UniversityCentral Academy, Des Moines, IA
Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
routing-slip10
c-language10
cpp10
routes10
cprogramming-language10
osrm10
openstreetmap9
url-routing9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Project-OSRM/osrm-backend
Feb 2016 - Nov 2016
Open Source Routing Machine - C++ backend
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 8 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Kerrick primarily focused on improving the OSRM backend, specifically contributing to the map matching and routing functionalities. Their work included hardcoding parameters, fixing capture issues, and refining the search radius calculation within the matching algorithm. They also added features for debugging and modifying the parameters for matching. These changes contribute to the overall accuracy and efficiency of the routing engine.
astarcppdijkstrac-plus-plusmap-matching
kerrick-lyft/bazel
Mar 2019 - Jul 2020
a fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system
Contributions:17 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 4 months
scalablegleambazelmulti-languagestarlark
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