Summary
Tom Bottiglieri is a Staff Software Engineer specializing in autonomy with 14 years of experience building embedded systems, robotics, and applied AI across companies from Cisco Meraki and Uber to DoorDash Labs. He is fluent in systems and application languages—C, C++, Python, Java/Kotlin, Swift/Objective-C and Ruby/JavaScript—allowing him to bridge firmware, mobile, and cloud stacks for real-world autonomous products. At DoorDash he focuses on autonomy research and productionization, drawing on past roles in robotics at MIT Media Lab and firmware at Apple to move prototypes into scalable systems. He has deep experience in Android/iOS platforms, real-time embedded constraints, and perception/control pipelines that power autonomy features. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who pairs low-level systems rigor with applied AI instincts, often surfacing elegant cross-domain solutions. Based in San Francisco, he combines academic robotics roots with long tenure in industry to deliver robust, production-grade autonomy software.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at Northeastern University
English