Najam Syed
Senior Software Engineer, Perception at Zoox
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNajam Syed is a senior perception software engineer with nine years of experience applying deep learning, computer vision, and robotics to real-world systems across medical devices and autonomous vehicles. Based in San Francisco, he progressed from R&D roles at Kitware to leading perception work at Zoox, where he now focuses on robust perception and control for autonomous platforms. His background in mechanical engineering and molecular biology gives him a cross-disciplinary edge in modeling physical systems and interpreting noisy sensor data. Najam combines research rigor from his graduate work with production-focused engineering, and maintains an active GitHub and personal site that showcase practical projects bridging academic ideas and deployable perception software.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (MSME) Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (MSME) Mechanical Engineering at Purdue UniversityBachelor of Science (BS) Molecular and Cell Biology, Bachelor of Science (BS) Molecular and Cell Biology at University of Connecticut
English, Urdu, German, Spanish, French, Russian
Github Skills (55)
springer10
image-processing9
scrape9
computer-vision8
animated8
ecology7
resnet7
scraper7
matching7
forum7
raspberry7
cli-tools7
python7
webcam7
opencv7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nrsyed/computer-vision
Feb 2018 - Mar 2020
Various computer vision and OpenCV utilities (Python and C++).
Contributions:26 commits, 1 PR, 24 pushes in 2 years 2 months
opencv-utilitiespython-utilitiespythonvisioncomputer-vision
nrsyed/files
Nov 2018 - Aug 2022
Assorted dot files, configuration files, and convenience scripts/files.
Contributions:4 PRs, 53 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 10 months
dotconveniencedot-filesconfiguration-filesdotfiles
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