Lucas Watson
Senior Software Engineer at Waymo
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLucas Watson is a senior software engineer and roboticist with a decade of experience building motion, perception, and control software for autonomous systems, currently advancing robotics at Waymo. He combines mechanical engineering graduate-level expertise in controls with hands-on work shipping safety-critical planning and control stacks, and previously launched a commercial follower robot (gita) where he owned controllers, state estimation, and on-device CNN optimization. Comfortable across the software–hardware boundary, he has optimized inference on Jetson TX2, implemented high-performance serialization for ZeroMQ, and modeled dynamics to inform mechanical design. Based in San Francisco, he pairs maker instincts with mentorship and event leadership from his BostonHacks work, reflecting a penchant for scaling teams and translating prototypes into product-ready systems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Leigh High SchoolMaster's of Science MS Mechanical Engineering Concentration in Controls, Master's of Science MS Mechanical Engineering Concentration in Controls at Boston University
English
Stackoverflow
783reputation
156kreached
30answers
19questions
Github Skills (69)
pose10
human-pose-estimation10
machine-vision10
face10
caffe10
computer-vision10
openpose10
keypoint10
pose-estimation10
alphabet9
opencv9
cpp9
machine-learning9
face-detection9
chalk8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
lkwatson/strangerlights
Nov 2016 - Feb 2020
Frontend for strangerlights.com, an interactive IoT light-up alphabet wall
Contributions:1 release, 8 pushes, 1 tag in 3 years 3 months
walllightalphabetfrontendiot
lkwatson/lkwatson
Apr 2016 - Dec 2024
Contributions:1 release, 42 PRs, 112 pushes in 8 years 8 months
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