Ulysses Lizarraga is a Staff Software Engineer and tech lead based in Los Angeles with eight years of experience building cloud-native and embedded systems for life sciences and industrial R&D. He combines a strong controls and mechatronics background (MS USC, BS CETYS) with hands-on expertise in Python, Java, C, React and Azure IoT edge/cloud services to deliver production pipelines, device integrations, and data platforms. At Verily he progressed from Senior Engineer to Staff Tech Lead, shepherding cross-functional teams through complex architectures involving Docker, Azure Functions, Cosmos/Mongo/Postgres, and CI/CD. Comfortable moving between firmware on Raspberry Pi/Arduino and scalable backends, he brings a practitioner’s rigor from control theory to distributed system design. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that bridge embedded hardware constraints and cloud-scale analytics.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Control Theory & Dynamical Systems, 3.82, Master's degree, Control Theory & Dynamical Systems, 3.82 at USC
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, 3.93, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, 3.93 at CETYS Universidad
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Ulysses Lizarraga - Staff Software Engineer - Tech Lead at Verily