Pepe Melendez
Senior Software Engineer at Cirotec Automation
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPepe Melendez is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of multidisciplinary experience building embedded systems, robotics, and vehicle positioning software at Waymo. He combines deep firmware and control systems expertise—developed through roles at Carbon Robotics and founding robotics ventures—with production-scale autonomy work on Waymo’s Embedded Software and Vehicle Positioning teams. A Mechatronics and Robotics engineer with a 4.0 undergraduate record and MS studies at Georgia Tech, Pepe brings hands-on hardware skills from PCB design and motor-control firmware to high-integrity software for autonomous vehicles. He also founded Cirotec’s automation division and Cirobots, showing a track record of turning competitive robotics experience into commercial solutions and teaching initiatives. Notably, his background spans the full product lifecycle from machining and electronics to field diagnostics and tuning, helping bridge research, manufacturing, and scalable deployment.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, 4.0, Bachelor's degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, 4.0 at Tecnológico de MonterreySummer Internship, Nanotechnology, Summer Internship, Nanotechnology at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (19)
printing6
octoprint6
motherboard6
ender5
sd-card5
cnc-controller4
printer4
hardware4
rover4
robot4
3d-printing3
3d-printer3
cnc3
ros3
robotics3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
pepemanboy/ping-pong-robot
Aug 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:17 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
pepemanboy/sumitomo_cpgs
Jan 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:35 commits, 29 pushes, 1 tag in 8 months
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