Marcus Hammond
Software Developer at Joditech
United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolMarcus Hammond is a robotics and autonomy leader with 11 years of experience building guidance, navigation, and control systems for aerial and ground vehicles. He holds a PhD from Stanford focused on robotic mapping in GPS-denied, limited-sensing environments and has moved from hands-on control engineering roles to managing prediction, planning, and Pathfinder teams at Wing and Toyota Research Institute. Marcus combines deep state-estimation and sensor-fusion expertise with practical product delivery across startups and research labs, shipping autonomy features in safety-critical systems. Based in Palo Alto, he pairs technical leadership with a pilot’s perspective—literally flying small aircraft around the Bay Area—which informs his pragmatic understanding of real-world vehicle behavior. Outside work he pursues fine woodworking and salsa dancing, reflecting a blend of precise craftsmanship and creative agility.
11 years of coding experience
Computer Science, Computer Science at Columbia University
Github Skills (2)
rc6
autopilot5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
thehammstr/pythonQuadSim
May 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
thehammstr/thesis
Jan 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:58 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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