Amar Maksumić
Software Engineer at Waymo
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmar Maksumić is a practical embedded software and control systems engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building robotics and automotive systems, currently pursuing an MS in Computer & Systems Engineering at RPI. He has led firmware and control development for electric powertrains, ECUs, and multi-node embedded platforms using STM32, C, MATLAB/Simulink, and ROS2, and has delivered production-minded features at companies from Tesla to Lutron. Amar combines systems-level thinking—architecture reviews, HIL/SIL validation, and automated tooling—with mentorship experience, having guided contributors in PCB design, motor control, and professional engineering workflows. Based in Troy, NY, he’s equally comfortable debugging CAN logs and designing low-cost prototyping hardware, and he often bridges academic research (photonics and inverse kinematics) with applied vehicle and robotics projects.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer & Systems Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer & Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteDual Enrollment, Dual Enrollment at Queens CollegeAdvanced Regents Diploma with Honors in Math and Science, Advanced Regents Diploma with Honors in Math and Science at Townsend Harris High School
bosnian/croatian/serbian, English, Spanish, German
Github Skills (7)
inverse-kinematics9
matlab9
c-library8
python7
cpp7
rust6
jetson1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Quad-OS/Quad-OS.github.io
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:490 commits in 2 months
RensselaerMotorsport/VehicleControlUnit
Jul 2024 - Jan 2026
This is the c library for controlling the car.
Contributions:49 reviews, 22 PRs, 40 pushes in 1 year 6 months
c-library
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