Sean Messenger
Director, Autonomy Data Curation
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Messenger is a director-level engineering leader who builds unified data flywheels that turn raw sensor streams into model-ready assets for autonomy. With 11 years of experience across research and production at Skydio, Cruise, Motional, May Mobility, and the University of Michigan, he combines hands-on sensor/perception expertise with large-scale data platform and simulation infrastructure delivery. He’s led cross-functional initiatives from founding engineering teams to managing 100+ person programs that delivered tens of thousands of simulation tasks and established company-wide sources of truth for autonomy metrics. Sean’s strength is connecting onboard autonomy concerns to fleet-scale data operations, accelerating model iteration through reproducible pipelines and shared infrastructure. Curious and pragmatic, he often bridges academic robotics methods (LIDAR perception, localization) with production constraints to create compounding systems. Based in the United States, he focuses on building systems that make autonomous systems measurably safer and faster to improve.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Robotics, Master of Science, Robotics at University of Michigan - Rackham Graduate SchoolDiploma, General Education, Diploma, General Education at Tahoma Senior High SchoolBachelor of Science in Engineering and Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (Double Major), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Engineering and Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (Double Major), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Harvey Mudd College
English, Spanish, Sign languages
Github Skills (21)
android-client4
mdi4
firebase4
kotlin3
angular3
react3
webapp3
java3
webpack2
websocket2
windows2
material-web-components2
android2
orange2
realtime1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
johnjwang/apriltag-android
Oct 2016 - Jan 2023
AprilTag detector app for Android
Contributions:1 release, 9 reviews, 22 commits in 6 years 4 months
messenger-sean/configs
Jan 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:44 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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