Rob Speare
Senior Product Manager at Waymo
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Speare is a Senior Product Manager in New York with a decade of experience translating deep technical expertise into product strategy across autonomous vehicles, AI startups, and enterprise deployments. He currently shapes product at Waymo after co-founding and serving as Chief Scientist at an AI startup and advising complex data-driven projects at Palantir. His background in physics (Princeton) and time as a Ph.D. candidate imbue his product work with quantitative rigor and a comfort with research-to-production transitions. He has also held roles in venture/partnership at Lydian Capital, giving him operational and commercial perspective beyond engineering. Colleagues describe him as someone who blends academic curiosity with pragmatic execution—able to bridge scientists, engineers, and business stakeholders. An active blogger, he signals a habit of reflecting publicly on technical and product challenges rather than just shipping code.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Physics, Bachelor's Degree, Physics at Princeton University
Spanish
Github Skills (20)
reinforcement-learning9
parallel9
python9
large-language-models9
gridsearchcv9
optimization9
ray8
deep-learning8
hyperparameter-optimization8
tensorflow8
machine-learning8
llm-inference8
llm8
pytorch8
data-science8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rspeare/discrete_opt
Jan 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
rspeare/santa2015
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
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