Simon Xu
Software Engineer at Zoox
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Xu is a software engineer with 11 years of experience in the San Francisco Bay Area, currently building systems at Zoox after roles in research and fraud-detection engineering. Trained in EECS at UC Berkeley, he combines robotics and ML foundations from hands-on projects—autonomous race cars, Baxter manipulation, and deep CNNs—with production engineering experience at DataVisor. Simon approaches engineering like crafting masterpieces, emphasizing precision in motion planning, optimization, and scalable system design. His background bridges academic research and applied product work, giving him a knack for turning complex planning and perception problems into deployable solutions. Notably, he has implemented trajectory planners using quadratic programming and integrated heterogeneous sensors in real-world robotic platforms.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyAssociate of Arts (A.A.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Associate of Arts (A.A.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Pasadena City College
Chinese, Japanese, Chinese, EnglishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Simon0xzx/garage
Jul 2020 - Feb 2021
A toolkit for reproducible reinforcement learning research
Contributions:81 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
reinforcement-learningreinforcementreproducible
Simon0xzx/tampy
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:70 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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