Summary
Alex Carrillo is a senior algorithm engineer with 16 years of robotics and aerospace experience, specializing in perception, control, calibration, and localization for autonomous systems. Based in San Francisco, he currently works at Civ Robotics on task and motion planning for an autonomous outdoor forklift used in solar-farm construction, after leading robotic perception and embedded software efforts at Astrolab for lunar rover programs. His career spans SpaceX flight software automation, FarmWise agricultural robotics, and multiple rover and vehicle projects, giving him a rare breadth from vehicle kinematics and pose estimation to real-time control and calibration. He is fluent in C++17 and Python 3.8, with ES6 as well, and enjoys picking up new languages to solve tough engineering problems. He has led calibration infrastructure and end-effector control initiatives, delivering robust, power-aware control and reliable localization in demanding environments.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer