Pedro Ramirez
Optical Engineer at WaveOptics (Snap Inc)
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPedro Ramirez is an optical engineer with nine years of cross-disciplinary experience building and characterizing imaging systems for augmented reality and scientific microscopy, currently designing waveguide optics at WaveOptics (Snap Inc.). He holds a PhD in Biotechnology from Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge Scholar and a B.S. in Optical Engineering from the University of Rochester, and has combined academic research—developing novel optical methods to measure thin-film charge in solution—with industry work on diffractive optics and HDR scatterometry. Skilled in Matlab-based image processing, Zemax optical design, and Python/R data analysis, he bridges lab prototyping and product-ready hardware development. Pedro’s background in teaching and science communication, plus startup and competition wins from his early career, mean he navigates technical complexity with a practical, user-focused mindset. Outside work he pursues endurance and balance through cycling, bouldering, yoga, and surfing, reflecting a steady appetite for hands-on problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biotechnology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biotechnology at University of CambridgeBachelor of Science (B.S.), Optical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Optical Engineering at University of Rochester
French, Spanish, English, Portuguese
Github Skills (5)
molecule5
bioinformatics3
projection2
imagej2
image-processing1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
LAG-OPT/lag-opt.github.io
Jun 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:26 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
pedropabloVR/RP-McMurphy
Oct 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:6 PRs, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
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