Michael Owens
Autopilot Software Engineering Intern at ARC Robotics
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Owens is a software engineer with eight years of hands-on experience bridging mathematics, robotics, and systems software, currently interning on Tesla Autopilot in Palo Alto while pursuing an MS in Computer Engineering at UC San Diego. He has led student robotics programs and technical conferences, shipped robotics and GPGPU firmware during internships at Relativity Space and Keysight, and contributes full‑stack code to playful open-source projects like wwwBASIC, where he optimized prime-generation examples and added a polar graph demo. Comfortable across firmware, vision, and backend stacks, he combines strong mathematical foundations with practical systems thinking to move prototypes toward reliable deployment. Notably, he pairs academic research roles with leadership of competitive robotics teams, reflecting both technical depth and operational drive.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoFoothill CollegeCentral Kitsap High SchoolBret Harte Union High School
English
Stackoverflow
63reputation
972reached
1answer
2questions
Github Skills (8)
trigonometry8
linear-algebra7
java6
metaprogramming6
abstract-syntax-tree6
groovy6
antlr6
javascript4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
google/wwwbasic
Sep 2018 - Apr 2019
wwwBASIC is an implementation of BASIC that runs on Node.js and the Web.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 8 PRs, 10 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the examples within the wwwBASIC repository, focusing on enhancing and refining the prime number generation example written in wwwBASIC code. They refactored the code to improve efficiency by using `GOSUB` and `EXIT` statements, corrected errors, and added a polar graphing example. Additionally, the user fixed a build issue and made improvements related to the prime number example's efficiency.
node-jsjavascriptnodejsruns
why-does-ie-still-exist/coAST
Nov 2018 - Apr 2022
Universal and language-independent abstract syntax tree
Contributions:16 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 6 months
language-independentindependentsyntax-treeabstract-syntax-treesyntax-highlighting
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