Zain Tahlilkar
Senior Software Developer at General Motors
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolZain Tahlilkar is a Senior Software Developer with 11 years of experience specializing in computer vision, machine learning, and embedded/real-time C++ systems. Currently at General Motors, he designs and implements diagnostic infrastructure and Adaptive AUTOSAR software for automated driving platforms, drawing on hands-on experience with NVIDIA Jetson, STM32, and in-vehicle protocols like CAN and RS232. His background blends mechatronics engineering training at McMaster with practical work on autonomous vehicle perception and low-level controllers, giving him a rare cross-domain fluency between perception algorithms and production automotive software. Earlier roles include building Ruby on Rails tooling and Dockerized deployments at Bell, demonstrating comfort across full-stack and DevOps tasks. Known for turning prototype vision models into deployable, requirements-driven components, he balances research curiosity with rigorous engineering discipline.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Mechatronics Engineering, 11.2, Bachelor’s Degree, Mechatronics Engineering, 11.2 at Faculty of Engineering - McMaster UniversityOntario Secondary School Diploma, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES, 90%, Ontario Secondary School Diploma, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES, 90% at AY Jackson Secondary School
English
Github Skills (52)
columns8
displays7
indexed7
nvidia6
rake6
segmentation6
image-recognition6
jetson6
spotify-api6
robotics6
deploying6
in-progress6
rom-rb6
ruby-on-rails5
spotify5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zainosaurus/spotify-app
Aug 2019 - Nov 2019
An app using Spotify's Developer API to visualize statistics on songs in Spotify, and to make and manage playlists from user's currently saved music. Currently a work in progress
Contributions:46 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 months
apireactstatisticsvisualizein-progress
zainosaurus/dotfiles
May 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:19 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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