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
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Github Skills (45)
opencv10
computer-vision10
cpp10
python9
object-detection8
cli-tools8
webcam8
linear-svm8
scrape8
svm8
matplotlib7
pytorch7
flask6
ecology6
backend5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nrsyed/flask-cam
Apr 2019 - Dec 2019
Raspberry Pi internet-streaming interactive Flask webcam server
Contributions:108 commits, 92 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
flaskraspberry-piwebcam
nrsyed/youtube-audio-matcher
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
Python package and CLI tools for efficiently downloading audio from YouTube channels, obtaining audio fingerprints, and matching audio fingerprints against a SQL database.
Contributions:87 commits, 20 PRs, 142 pushes in 29 days
audiocli-toolspythonsql-databaseyoutube
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