Summary
Pengwei Z is a Mechatronics Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience designing and deploying robotic and automation systems across startups and research labs in the Bay Area. He has led end-to-end warehouse robotics integrations, improved calibration systems (including a 20% efficiency gain at TuSimple), and reduced sensor latency in academic work to under 0.5ms, demonstrating a rare blend of field deployment and tight hardware-software calibration expertise. Comfortable scripting and automating tasks in Python, programming UR5e robots, and implementing industrial communication protocols (RS232/RS485), he bridges mechanical design, firmware, and system-level debugging. Based in Fremont, CA, Pengwei pairs practical implementation skills—rack and network setup, WMS integration, robot tuning—with a research mindset from UC Berkeley, making him effective at turning prototype calibration concepts into reliable production systems.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Mechanical Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Mechanical Engineering at University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Nagoya University
Chinese, English, Japanese