Michael Root
Director Of Product Engineering, Retail at Dexterity, Inc.
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Root is a seasoned product engineering leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling robotic and software platforms, currently directing product engineering for retail robotics at Dexterity in Sunnyvale. He joined Dexterity pre-Series A and helped grow the company from ~20 to 200+ people while taking multiple generations of fulfillment systems from concept to production. His background blends hands-on robotics engineering, enterprise architecture at Vanguard, and formal CS training with an MS from USC, enabling him to create systems, processes, and CI/CD practices that boost velocity and component reuse. A former U.S. Marine and Tactical Data Network Specialist, he brings disciplined operational rigor, defense-grade security familiarity, and large-team leadership to commercial product delivery. Known for mentoring engineering managers and cross-functional teams, he also has a track record of shipping first-in-production robotics deployments and inventing developer tooling to improve productivity. Based in Sunnyvale, he balances startup-scale execution with enterprise-level engineering discipline to drive reliable, iteratively deployed robotic software.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaWest Chester University of PennsylvaniaBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Millersville University of Pennsylvania
Japanese
Github Skills (16)
git10
github10
patch9
python9
kubernetes9
subversion8
grunt-task7
xml5
junit4
maven4
maven-plugin4
java4
expressjs4
jasmine3
livereload3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hsuanhauliu/RuGo
Aug 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:1 release, 168 commits, 138 pushes in 3 months
nemosx/Advent-of-Code-2015
Dec 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:68 commits, 65 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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