Zac Witte
Staff Robotics ML Software Engineer at Cruise
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolZac Witte is a Staff Robotics ML Software Engineer in San Francisco with 16 years of experience building real-time, intelligent systems across startups and scaling teams. He combines deep practical experience in robotics and ML at Cruise with founding and early-engineer roles at Marble and HandUp, bringing product-minded engineering to complex continuous systems. Zac is a hands-on generalist who spans perception, infrastructure, and full-stack development—evidenced by contributions to PubNub’s realtime APIs and cross-platform SDK improvements. He thrives on solving real-world problems that improve everyday life and often bridges research concepts into production-grade autonomy. An uncommon strength is his founder’s perspective: he routinely balances rapid iteration with long-term system reliability.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bs, Bs at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
realtime10
python10
apidoc10
real-time-data10
api10
android10
communications10
api-design9
restful-api9
mobile-development9
api-rest9
rest-api9
cloud-computing8
shelve6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pubnub/pubnub-api
Nov 2011 - Dec 2012
APIs for developers building secure realtime mobile, web, and IoT apps.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Zac primarily contributed to the PubNub API, focusing on enhancing the functionality of the platform across multiple languages and platforms. Their work included implementing presence features, improving the Python and JavaScript APIs. They also worked on minifying JavaScript code and updated the JavaScript and Android APIs.
securerealtimefor-developersmobile-webiot
MarbleInc/ros-system-monitor
May 2017 - Sep 2019
System monitoring tools for ROS.
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
ros2rosmonitoring-toolssystem-monitoringmonitoring
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