Tim Magoun
Engineering at Applied Intuition
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Magoun is an engineering professional with 11 years of experience focused on robotics perception and autonomy, currently contributing at Applied Intuition in Sunnyvale. He has hands-on experience building vision-first mobile SLAM systems, integrating open-set object representations with SLAM and visual-inertial odometry from roles at MIT and Matician. Tim’s background spans research and product engineering—he's built testing infrastructure for non-deterministic landmark-based SLAM, brought up motion-capture systems, and streamlined sensor workflows for rapid iteration. Early internships at Nokia Bell Labs and General Motors show a track record of shipping embedded vision features and integrating compute software across hardware-constrained platforms. He pairs rigorous EE/CS training from MIT with practical system bring-up skills, often focusing on robust, efficient perception under real-world constraints. An understated strength is his ability to bridge research prototypes and production-ready tooling, making complex perception systems reliably testable and deployable.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
West Windsor-Plainsboro High School SouthMaster's of Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Master's of Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (10)
steam9
steamworks9
placement5
robot4
robot-control3
fpga2
modularity2
rush1
recycle1
java1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Team1923/Stronghold_2016
Jan 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 16 pushes in 11 months
strongholdgame
TimMagoun/ProgrammingLesson
Jan 2016 - Jul 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
seasonpython
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