Shakeeb Ahmad
Software Engineer - Planning & Controls at Zoox
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShakeeb Ahmad is a software engineer specializing in planning and controls with eight years of experience applying robotics perception, motion planning, and control to real-world autonomy challenges. Currently at Zoox, he brings a research-driven approach from his PhD work at CU Boulder, where he helped develop sampling-based planners, reactive control, and semantic perception for subterranean exploration that contributed to a top-three DARPA Subterranean Challenge finish. His background spans aerial and ground robotics—from fast quadrotor trajectory generation using PX4 and Jetson platforms to LiDAR-based mapping and POMDP-informed decision making—combining strong C++/ROS engineering with probabilistic state estimation. Based in Boulder, he blends academic rigor with production-focused system design and has a track record of turning complex sensor and planning research into deployable autonomy components.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Electrical Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Electrical Engineering at University of New Mexico School of EngineeringBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical Engineering at National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
English, Urdu
Github Skills (48)
api9
cpp9
rmarkdown8
hugo-theme8
mavlink8
netlify8
page-builder7
r7
hugo7
forestry7
open-science7
rstudio7
depth-camera7
stereolabs7
visual-odometry7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
shakeebbb/apf_pf
Apr 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:55 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 9 months
shakeebbb/vision_pkg
Sep 2018 - May 2021
Contributions:11 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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