Summary
Daniel Lam is a computer science student and AI-focused engineer at UT Austin who blends research-grade robotics work with production-ready generative AI systems. He has 11 years of engineering experience building low-latency robot control pipelines (sub-10ms with ROS and TensorFlow) and training custom models for dynamic manipulation, alongside shipping full-stack RAG-based AI assistants that cut information lookup times by 80%. At Lockheed Martin he prototyped a VS Code AI assistant using Llama 3.3 that improved developer productivity by 40%, and he currently leads internal technology for a $25M+ sustainable building portfolio. Comfortable across Python, C/C++, TypeScript, PyTorch and LangChain, he moves smoothly between research, systems engineering, and product delivery—often translating simulation insights into real-time control and cloud-deployed tools. Notably, he pairs hands-on robotics experiments with scalable software architecture, accelerating both lab research and organizational workflows.
11 years of coding experience