Mariano Lizarraga
Embedded Software Manager at Amazon Fulfillment Technologies & Robotics
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMariano Lizarraga is an embedded software leader with 8+ years driving high-ambiguity R&D into production-scale autonomous systems, currently managing a team building safety-rated autonomous drive units at Amazon Fulfillment Technologies & Robotics. He blends deep academic expertise—a PhD in Computer Engineering focused on UAV GNC—with hands-on firmware and system architecture experience from leading Mexico’s naval UAS program and developing autopilots and ground stations. At AWS he scaled simulation and synthetic-data efforts, coordinating product, science, and engineering to launch customer-facing features for SageMaker Ground Truth and internal ML-for-simulation initiatives. Known for instituting rigorous testing and performance improvements, he excels at turning prototype research into repeatable, testable platforms and building capable cross-functional teams. Based in Greater Boston, he brings a rare mix of military program management, academic research, and cloud-scale product delivery that accelerates autonomous systems from concept to fleet-ready deployment.
7 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa CruzMaster of Science in Electrical Engineering Control Systems, Master of Science in Electrical Engineering Control Systems at Naval Postgraduate SchoolBachelors Naval Sciences Engineering, Bachelors Naval Sciences Engineering at Heroica Escuela Naval Militar de Mexico
English, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
simulink10
aircraft10
radio-control10
operator9
simulator9
autopilot7
rover7
mavlink7
drones7
px45
Github contributions (1)
mathworks/simulinkDroneReferenceApp
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:1 branch in 1 day
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