Tim Kanarsky
Robotics Software Engineer at Tesla
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Kanarsky is a robotics software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building systems that bridge code and physical hardware, currently working on Tesla's Optimus robot in Mountain View. His background spans flight and avionics software at SpaceX, backend and full‑stack work at Meta, and autonomous submersible software development with AVBotz, giving him a rare mix of embedded, distributed, and perception-focused engineering. He holds a BS in Computer Science from UCLA and has shipped reliability and configuration tooling for vehicle networks and flight systems. Tim enjoys projects that interact with the real world and maintains a project portfolio at tkanarsky.com that highlights his practical integrations of sensors, drivers, and algorithms. Comfortable across firmware-to-cloud stacks, he combines low-level systems thinking with product-minded delivery for robotic platforms.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of California, Los Angeles
Russian, English, Spanish
Github Skills (102)
shell10
chatbot10
cli10
function-calling10
claude10
linux9
overlapped-speech-detection9
ai9
webui9
gemini9
ollama9
rust9
change-detection9
speech-processing9
command-line-interface9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
tkanarsky/homebridge-alarm-listener
Mar 2021 - May 2022
Homebridge plugin that listens for smoke detector alarms, and exposes the HomeKit Smoke Sensor service.
Contributions:1 review, 10 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 2 months
homebridgehomekit
tkanarsky/tkanarsky.github.io
Jul 2021 - Jul 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes in 3 years 11 months
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