Spyros Maniatopoulos
Senior Staff Software Engineer (Motion Planning & Controls) at Cruise
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSpyros Maniatopoulos is a Senior Staff Software Engineer specializing in motion planning and vehicle controls with 13 years of experience driving robotics and autonomous vehicle software from research prototypes to production. Based in San Francisco, he has held progressive engineering and leadership roles at Cruise, plus hands-on platform and manufacturing software leadership at Mayfield Robotics and Maidbot. His background blends rigorous controls and verification research (Cornell MS, verifiable robotics) with practical delivery—shipping secure OTA updates, TPM/LUKS secure boot, and multiple robot and vehicle releases. He's experienced in system-level CI, embedded Linux, ROS, and productionizing complex cross-functional features across global manufacturing lines. Currently on a career break to recharge and travel, he brings a rare mix of formal verification thinking and pragmatic DevOps-for-robotics execution that reduces onboarding times and accelerates safe deployments.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Dynamics, Systems, and Controls (Minor in Computer Science), 4.13, Master’s Degree, Dynamics, Systems, and Controls (Minor in Computer Science), 4.13 at Cornell UniversityDiploma, Mechanical Engineering, Diploma, Mechanical Engineering at National Technical University of Athens
Github Skills (6)
planning3
robotics3
ros3
manipulation2
ros-control2
motion-planning1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
team-vigir/vigir_ros_control
Aug 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:135 commits in 10 months
team-vigir/vigir_ocs_common
Jan 2013 - May 2015
Contributions:233 commits in 2 years 4 months
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