Tom Jacobs
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorTom Jacobs is a software engineer and founder with 10+ years building systems that bridge low-level embedded hardware and real-world robotics applications. He’s led engineering teams and startups—from shipping P2P C++ clients at Red Swoosh to scaling mobile apps at Expensify and developing sensing and autonomy platforms at Ghost Robotics. Hands-on with embedded Linux, microcontrollers, depth cameras, LIDAR, and frameworks like PyTorch, he combines firmware, systems, and machine learning expertise to deliver autonomous solutions. As a serial founder and CTO he has repeatedly owned product, infrastructure, and hiring, plus shipped physical sensor devices and remote upgrade systems. He completed Udacity’s Self-Driving Car Nanodegree and brings a rare blend of early C++ networking chops and modern robotics experience. Based in Palo Alto, he pairs maker instincts in electronics with startup-scale execution.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (69)
kinematics10
python10
simulator10
deep-learning10
ssh10
robotics10
collision-detection10
ml10
neural-network10
pybullet10
reinforcement-learning10
java10
bullet-physics10
tensorflow10
simulation10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tjacobs/Deskman
Nov 2024 - May 2025
Contributions:287 pushes in 5 months
tjacobs/Hills
Mar 2025 - Apr 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 309 pushes, 4 branches in 13 days
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