Mickey Barboi
Staff Software Engineer at Waymo
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMickey Barboi is a staff software engineer in Denver with 11 years of experience building autonomous systems and edge platforms. Currently on Waymo's Planner Reasoning team, he focuses on scaling formal definitions of safe, human-like driving behavior. He previously led software at Left Hand Robotics—joining as the third employee to ship the first commercial snow-clearing and mowing robots and later architected offboard systems after acquisition by Toro. A serial founder and early-stage builder, he has hands-on experience across product, infrastructure, security, and path planning from startups to production fleets. He pairs academic training from UW–Madison with a pragmatic, build-first mindset and a track record of turning robotics research into commercial products.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Romanian, French, Italian
Github Skills (112)
firmware10
routers10
redis10
usb10
edge-computing10
cocoapods10
wifi10
python-development9
docker-compose9
golang9
programming-language9
python9
pip9
packaging9
pipfile9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
exis-io/swiftRiffle
Sep 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:1 release, 196 commits, 72 pushes in 6 months
exis-io/Exis
Oct 2015 - Apr 2016
Exis client libraries, sample projects, and demos.
Contributions:979 commits, 351 pushes, 8 branches in 6 months
redisclient-librariessample-projects
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