Thomas G
Software Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorThomas Godden is a hardware engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of hands-on experience designing electronics, firmware, and low-level control systems for mobile and robotic platforms. He has progressed from mechanical and electrical assembly roles to leading electronics architecture and firmware development across multiple product generations at PipeDream Labs and now Physical Intelligence. Trained at Imperial College London (MEng in Engineering Design), he blends formal control theory and practical fabrication—having written joint controllers for walking robots and redesigned teaching materials for online engineering math. Equally comfortable in hardware and software, he focuses on “hardware and software for things that move,” shipping mechatronic systems that balance robustness with field-upgradeable firmware. Outside of work he documents projects and engineering thoughts on his website and Twitter, signaling an active maker mindset beyond formal publications.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (31)
mathematics10
pixel9
moveit8
pixel-art8
open-source7
motion-planning7
webapp6
depthai6
sampling6
stm32cubemx6
svd5
ros5
least-squares5
hardware5
firmware5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
LegoYoda112/BLDC_Driver
Oct 2023 - Jun 2026
Firmware, Documentation (and eventually hardware) for a low cost brushless motor controller.
Contributions:4 PRs, 34 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 8 months
firmwarehardware
LegoYoda112/smart_display
Oct 2020 - Oct 2022
Cleaning rota etc. for new flat. Very messy prototype code, view at your own risk.
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
cleaningprototyperiskrota
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