Matthew Tavares
Director Of Engineering at Exploring, Inc.
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Tavares is a multidisciplinary engineering leader and roboticist with 11 years of experience designing mechanical, electrical, and embedded-to-cloud systems across commercial, museum, and R&D settings. As Director of Engineering and owner of TavaresLabs, he combines hands-on fabrication and CAD expertise with systems-level architecture to deliver complex interactive exhibits, ocean-bottom geophysical hardware, and production-ready prototypes. He played key roles at Hanson Robotics and in the creation of the 30,000 sq-ft Wiess Energy Hall, where he engineered everything from motor control and pneumatics to secure IoT networks and custom motor controllers. Matthew’s background in combat robotics and early wins like BattleBots IQ inform a pragmatic, pressure-tested approach to problem solving and rapid prototyping. Known for translating ambitious concepts into manufacturable designs, he thrives on multidisciplinary challenges that require both creative mechanisms and reliable, industrial-grade implementation.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Mechanical Engineering, Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering at The University of Texas at DallasHigh School, Robotics and Science Magnet Programs, A, High School, Robotics and Science Magnet Programs, A at Richardson Magnet High School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (5)
internet-radio9
music8
firmata7
blockchain4
javascript3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MattTavares/MattTavares.github.io
Apr 2015 - May 2022
Contributions:273 commits, 375 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 2 months
TavaresPaine/TavaresPaine.github.io
Oct 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:75 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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