Maccallister Higgins
Software at Pipedream
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMacCallister Higgins is a robotics software and systems engineer with 11 years of experience building autonomous vehicles and delivery systems, currently leading software at Pipedream on underground high-speed delivery networks. He co-founded Voyage to deploy self-driving vehicles in private communities and previously ran systems engineering for Amazon Prime Air drones, combining hands-on perception, localization, and control work with operational leadership. His background spans military aircraft perception, UAV ground control and air-traffic planning startups, and academic research in human-robot interaction and mesh networks for NASA. Based in Mountain View, he blends deep embedded and cloud-connected systems expertise with a knack for shipping complex, safety-critical autonomy in the real world—often inventing low-cost hardware and communications hacks, like using smartphones as drone modems, to make novel systems practical.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles at University of Nevada, Reno
French
Github Skills (92)
autonomous-vehicles10
sdk10
sensor10
machine-learning10
hardware10
self-driving-car10
intel9
robotics9
depth-estimation9
computer-vision9
in-app-purchase9
pcl9
depth-camera9
payment-methods9
lidar9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mjshiggins/mjshiggins.github.io
Sep 2015 - Dec 2021
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
udacity/self-driving-car
Oct 2016 - Feb 2017
The Udacity open source self-driving car project
Contributions:170 commits, 20 PRs, 158 pushes in 4 months
udacityself-drivingmachine-learningdrivingautonomous-vehicles
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