DW Wheeler
Senior Software Engineer at Zoox
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDW Wheeler is a Senior Software Engineer based in Mountain View with seven years of experience building robotics and middleware software, recently joining Zoox. Trained at MIT (BS) and Stanford (MS), DW focuses on Java-driven systems for autonomous and lunar rover applications, blending low-latency driving software with UI and middleware integration. Comfortable across robotics stacks, he has marketed roles connecting aerospace opportunities with hands-on development, suggesting a knack for translating mission-focused requirements into production code. Known as a Senior Robotics Engineer on GitHub, he brings a practical mix of academic rigor and field-oriented engineering to autonomy challenges.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at Stanford University
Github Skills (3)
eclipse-rcp8
django-apps3
mission-control2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nasa/astrobee_gds
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
The Astrobee Control Station is an Eclipse RCP application that can command and monitor an Astrobee robot or simulator.
Contributions:5 commits, 25 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
eclipse-rcp
ddwheele/coursera-robotics-capstone-pi
Dec 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:88 pushes, 3 branches, 1 tag in 1 month
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