Sebastian Lopez-cot
Staff Software Engineer at Aurora
Tampa, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolSebastian Lopez-cot is a Staff Software Engineer based in Tampa with 13 years of experience building perception and machine learning systems for autonomous vehicles, currently leading ML and perception work for self-driving trucks at Aurora. He progressed through multiple engineering levels at Aurora after internships and early perception roles at Uber’s Advanced Technologies Group, blending hands-on research with production deployment. Trained at MIT (MEng in AI; BS in EECS), he applies academic rigor to practical problems like sensor fusion, LiDAR mapping, and real-time perception pipelines. Known as a creative problem-solver, he favors learning new technologies and turning prototypes into robust systems—a trait rooted in early work on immersive data visualization and mobile 3D mapping.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Artificial Intelligence, Master of Engineering - MEng, Artificial Intelligence at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (65)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
FRC79/CK_17
Jan 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:80 commits in 6 months
FRC79/CK_18_Vision
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:13 commits in 13 days
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