Maxwell Svetlik
Staff AI Engineer at SonyAI
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMaxwell Svetlik is a Staff AI Engineer with 11 years’ experience designing, building, and deploying autonomous robots in real-world environments. He combines hands-on skills as a fabricator, machinist, and embedded systems programmer with research-grade expertise in navigation, manipulation, and human-robot interfaces developed at UT Austin and through roles at Diligent Robotics and SonyAI. As co-founder of Svenzva Robotics he engineered cost-conscious robot arms and led the ROS-based software stack, demonstrating a knack for turning constrained hardware into capable systems. Known for closing the loop between sensors, simulation, and field deployment, he’s adept at diagnosing tricky real-world issues (e.g., sensor fusion fixes for reflective surfaces) and shipping robust prototypes. Based in the United States, Maxwell blends entrepreneurial grit with academic rigor to make autonomous systems practically useful outside the lab.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (63)
robotics10
robot10
ros-driver10
ros10
manipulator10
markov9
arm9
security7
mahjong7
graph7
vector7
api7
react7
frontend7
co-simulation6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
utexas-bwi/segbot_arm
Feb 2015 - Mar 2017
Packages related to the segbot's Kinova MICO arm
Contributions:428 commits, 10 PRs, 199 pushes in 2 years 1 month
micoarm
maxsvetlik/gouldboycolor
Feb 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:49 commits, 26 pushes in 2 months
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