Tim Wheeler
Summary
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SeniorTim Wheeler is a Staff Software Engineer and Technical Lead Manager at Waymo with 12 years of experience building decision-making and safety-critical systems for autonomous vehicles and aviation. He holds a PhD from Stanford in automotive AI and safety and co-authored textbooks on optimization and decision algorithms, bringing deep theory to production-grade reasoning frameworks used on- and off-board. Tim’s career spans multiagent planning, high-fidelity simulation, cloud-scale testing, and eVTOL controls—work that has led to multiple patents and operational safety improvements. Based in Mountain View, he combines robotics, deep learning, and optimization expertise to turn complex probabilistic models into reliable real-world products, and he’s especially focused on pedestrian reasoning and measurable safety outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (200)
textbook10
probabilistic-programming10
python10
pgfplots10
tikz10
metadata10
bayesian-methods10
traffic10
bayesian-inference10
optimization10
graph-layout10
markov-chain10
architecture10
hierarchical-clustering10
errata10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tawheeler/alg4opt_test.jl
Nov 2017 - Jul 2022
Contributions:106 commits, 97 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 9 months
shashi/Reel.jl
Oct 2016 - Feb 2020
computations caught on camera
Contributions:4 releases, 50 commits, 9 PRs in 3 years 4 months
camerapython
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