Zach Goins
Senior Robot Software Engineer at Stealth Startup
Orlando, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolZach Goins is a Senior Robot Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building autonomy, SLAM, and systems-level robotics software across startups and product teams. He has been a founding engineer and autonomy lead, shipping high-level planners, local path planners, trajectory generation, and the infrastructure that makes robots reliable in the real world. Zach blends deep technical ownership—covering HW/SW integration, synchronization, simulation, and regression testing—with entrepreneurial experience running a bootstrapped AI construction startup and managing its finance, IP, and legal assets. Currently at a stealth robotics startup after recent roles leading autonomy infrastructure at Fox Robotics and Scythe, he’s skilled at turning ambiguous research problems into production-grade systems. Outside work he’s an avid musician, climber, and amateur philosopher who enjoys exploring where finance, waste-tech, and space intersect with robotics. Despite a private-code GitHub, his track record reflects a pattern of impactful, production-focused engineering and product judgment.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Software and Embedded Systems Business, Bachelor's Degree Computer Software and Embedded Systems Business at University of Florida
English
Github Skills (17)
robotics10
monorepo10
autonomous-robots10
data-science9
machine-learning9
client-library9
navigator9
ros9
rust8
autonomous-vehicles8
robot6
meta1
fusion1
ieee1
sensor1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
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