Summary
Skyler Medeiros is a Senior Robotics Engineer based in San Francisco with nine years of experience building production-grade robot software across R&D, mass production, and independent projects. A seasoned C++ and Python developer and ROS committer, Skyler has led middleware and ROS2 integrations, migrated distros and toolchains at scale, and driven performance and stability improvements in navigation, perception, and sensor drivers. They've shipped autonomy features for consumer and commercial fleets—reducing sensor latency, improving localization, and hardening behavior recovery—while also contributing benchmarking tools that led to upstream middleware fixes. A former robotics world championship competitor, Skyler combines competitive systems-level intuition with pragmatic engineering, and continues to run self-directed research and open-source work in parallel with industry roles.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts - AA, Associate of Arts - AA at State College of Florida-Manatee-Sarasota
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Florida Polytechnic University