Summary
Lakiel Wade is a Robotics Software Engineer with eight years of professional experience, currently applying his MS-level robotics training at Mobile Industrial Robots in Greater Boston. He blends practical industrial automation work with a strong research interest in AI, ML, perception, path planning and NLP, and has hands-on experience integrating hardware and software from earlier mechatronics projects. His background spans full-stack and DevOps-adjacent skills—Java, C#, Docker, CI/CD, database migrations and monitoring tools—gained supporting large financial migrations and embedded systems. Notably, he implemented multi-currency automated payment and payout systems during an international internship and holds a Benjamin A. Gilman scholarship for study abroad. This combination of academic robotics focus and production-grade system reliability positions him to bridge research concepts with deployable robotic solutions.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Nordonia High School
Master of Science - MS, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Master of Science - MS, Robotics and Autonomous Systems at The University of Sheffield
Programming and Software Development certificate, Computer Science, Programming and Software Development certificate, Computer Science at Cuyahoga Valley Career Center
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Cleveland State University
English