Matt Derry
Staff Software Engineer at Zoox
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Derry is a Staff Software Engineer specializing in perception and object tracking for autonomous vehicles, currently tackling hard problems on Zoox’s perception team. With 11+ years building autonomy stacks, he led end-to-end perception and flight autonomy at Zipline and managed object perception research and on-vehicle systems at Toyota Research Institute. He blends deep academic training in robotics and assistive systems from Northwestern with hands-on systems engineering in Rust/C++/Python, embedded Linux, and multi-sensor fusion. Known for shipping production autonomy across aerial and ground platforms, he also brings uncommon breadth from early careers in medical-device tooling and web/app development. Based in Ann Arbor, he combines research rigor with product-focused delivery to move perception algorithms from lab prototypes into safety-critical vehicles.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoPh.D. Candidate Computer Science, Ph.D. Candidate Computer Science at Northwestern University
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Github Skills (16)
ros7
pcl7
point-cloud-library6
ibm-cloud5
3d-graphics4
openstack4
google-cloud4
rust3
azure3
digitalocean3
cluster-manager3
distributed-computing3
aws3
dask2
copula2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MattDerry/model_predictive_navigation
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
A sample ROS package that provides model predictive equilibrium point control for the turtlebot simulator.
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 comment in 1 day
ros
MattDerry/bioloid_ros
Oct 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:16 commits in 1 day
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