Orlando Gordillo
Senior Robotics Software Engineer at General Motors
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOrlando Gordillo is a Senior Robotics Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and leading mission-critical robotics and web applications, most recently at General Motors after a multi-year tenure as a Robotics Operations Flight Controller at NASA Johnson Space Center. He leads a software branch overseeing 10+ developers and 20+ active mission applications spanning standalone Python tools to full-stack Django/PostgreSQL/React systems. Grounded in a Computer Science education and a focus on computer vision, he combines hands-on prototyping with operational discipline to deliver reliable flight and robotic software. Based in Austin, he excels at translating complex mission requirements into production-ready systems while mentoring teams to iterate quickly and safely. An outcome-driven leader, he thrives where technical rigor meets rapid innovation.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at The University of Texas at El PasoAssociate of Arts (AA) Computer Science, Associate of Arts (AA) Computer Science at El Paso Community College
English, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
robot8
apply6
ros5
raspberry-pi5
3d-printing3
slam3
stereolabs2
spacex1
space1
swift1
intern1
rocket1
robotics1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ogordillo/ROS2_Conversion_Freenove_Big_Hexapod_Robot_Raspberry_Pi
Aug 2025 - Sep 2025
Project to convert FNK0052 robot into a ROS2 application
Contributions:16 PRs, 72 pushes, 28 branches in 1 month
LMAInspectionCrawler/OpenCV_Unity_DLL
Mar 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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