Peter Polidoro
Senior Engineer at Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Ashburn, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Polidoro is a senior engineer with 16 years of experience designing and building robotics and automated experimental systems for neuroscience research at Janelia Research Campus. He bridges hardware and software—writing embedded firmware, designing PCBs and electrical systems, and architecting distributed networks of electromechanical devices used in fly, zebrafish, mouse, and rat assays. Equally comfortable at the bench and in high-level system design, he maintains long-lived experimental rigs and firmware libraries for diverse scientific users. A pragmatic open-source advocate, he regularly uses and contributes to free tooling such as Emacs, Guix, Debian, KiCAD, and FreeCAD. His work blends mechanical engineering training from Cornell and advanced engineering studies at Stanford with a hands-on, research-driven approach to automation that keeps complex experiments running reliably for years.
16 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering at Cornell UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Engineering at Stanford University
Github Skills (145)
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controller10
triple10
std10
state-machine10
arduino-library10
uml-state-machine10
axis10
stepper10
points10
arduino-uno10
ros-driver10
modeling-tool10
ide10
sequence10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
peterpolidoro/pyaudio_controller_ros
Sep 2015 - Sep 2021
Contributions:12 pushes in 6 years 1 month
peterpolidoro/light_sensor_boards
Oct 2017 - Feb 2024
Contributions:17 pushes, 4 branches, 1 tag in 6 years 5 months
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