Summary
Raphael Chang is a software engineer with a decade of experience building embedded, robotics, and autonomy systems, currently contributing to Waymo's self-driving stack. He brings deep C/C++ and Python expertise across Linux, real-time OSes, and microcontroller platforms, with a background in flight controllers, avionics test systems, and cloud-robotics frameworks developed at MIT CSAIL. His work spans low-level firmware to cloud services and computer vision, including CNN-based traffic monitoring and inter-task communication frameworks for real-time autonomy. A USA Computing Olympiad Gold recipient and licensed amateur radio operator, he combines strong hardware design skills (Altium, CAD) with software architecture chops to bridge electronics and large-scale autonomous systems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lynbrook High School
English, Chinese, Japanese