Will Silva
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
🤩
RockstarWill Silva is a senior machine learning manager based in San Francisco with 11 years building autonomy stacks for vehicles and UAVs, currently leading ML efforts at NVIDIA after steering simulation and maneuver planning teams at Cruise. He combines deep controls and planning expertise—from energy-aware trajectory optimization in academia to shipping autonomous "Smart Shots" features at 3D Robotics—with hands-on engineering and people leadership across Zoox and Cruise. His background spans low-level flight control, optimization-based obstacle avoidance, and large-scale simulation, enabling him to bridge research, product, and production ML systems. Notably, he has repeatedly owned end-to-end autonomy products (from onboard trajectory optimizers to companion vehicle state machines), showing both algorithmic depth and product ownership.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (26)
dronekit-python10
robotics10
qt10
gtk10
arduino10
ros10
mavlink9
matplotlib9
autopilot9
python9
rover9
plane9
data-visualization9
dronekit8
deprecated8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
3drobotics/PX4Firmware
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
PX4 Firmware for PX4FMU autopilot and PX4IO servo / failsafe board (forked @ 7acfcea)
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 day
firmwarepx4
wsilva32/tol
Jun 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.