Orlando Lara
Senior Software Engineer at Zendar
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolOrlando Lara is a Senior Software Engineer and robotics MS from the University of Pennsylvania with eight years of experience building real-world autonomy and embedded systems. He co-founded a robotics AI startup and has shipped safety-critical software for self-driving trucks, a radar imaging system at Zendar, and a cloud-integrated predictive-maintenance platform for railroads. His background spans full-stack data pipelines, multithreaded systems, and real-time embedded firmware—evidenced by an award-winning indoor navigation paper and industrial-grade data loggers. Based in Berkeley, he combines academic rigor with startup grit, favoring pragmatic, elegant solutions to messy physical-world problems. Notably, he has repeatedly turned sensor fusion and constrained-network challenges into production-ready tooling that improves operational resilience.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Mechatronics, Bachelor's degree Mechatronics at Tecnológico de MonterreyMaster of Science - MS Robotics, Master of Science - MS Robotics at University of Pennsylvania
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (8)
ros9
gps9
rgb6
stereo5
structure-from-motion4
3d-reconstruction4
slam3
open3d2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
orlando21lara/meam520_labs
Sep 2023 - Dec 2023
Contributions:37 pushes, 6 branches in 2 months
orlando21lara/std_algo
May 2022 - May 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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