Shawn Hice
Research Software Engineer at Neuralink
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShawn Hice is a research software engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building robotics, simulation, and cross-platform systems that prioritize developer velocity and observability. He’s shipped production robotics stacks and real-time systems at The Boring Company and now contributes to next-generation projects at Neuralink, drawing on deep C++ expertise and a history of building tooling and simulation platforms at Autodesk and his startup Collidable. Shawn blends hands-on firmware and hardware integration with web and cloud-facing interfaces, having delivered autonomous agriculture controllers, AR simulation apps, and build systems for unreleased targets. He’s equally comfortable leading small teams or owning core platform components, and has a knack for turning complex CAD and physics workflows into performant, web-friendly experiences. Colleagues know him for pragmatic automation and relentless unit testing—“creating the future one unit test failure at a time.”
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Portland State University
German
Github Skills (136)
simulator10
protoc10
robotics10
protocol-buffers10
cad10
exports10
protobuf10
serialization10
rpc10
physics10
autodesk10
simulation10
fusion10
robot10
robot-simulator10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
HiceS/Syntrol
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
API for robot emulation, just the foundation.
Contributions:39 commits, 6 PRs, 35 pushes in 1 day
apiroboticsautodesksimulationrobot
HiceS/fusion-360-helper
Feb 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 21 commits, 16 pushes in 3 months
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