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ML and perception engineer with four years in data engineering, now finishing an MS in Computer Science at Georgia Tech.
Experience
- Data Engineer Intern — Zoox · May 2026 – present
- Built perception-data pipelines for pickup/drop-off zone planning and an automated Databricks catalog inventory.
- Mined hundreds of millions of perception ticks across every geofence into a per-hex parking-occupancy signal used to rank new zones.
- Software Engineer, Data — Wpromote · Jul 2021 – Aug 2025
- Built and maintained dozens of marketing data pipelines (Google Cloud, dbt, SQL, Python) for client reporting.
- Owned a unified organic + paid search data product underpinning a $22k–$52k/month service offering.
Education
- MS, Computer Science — Georgia Institute of Technology · Expected May 2027
- Computational Perception & Robotics. RoboCup software team, RoboJackets; CLEF 2027 with DS@GT.
- BA, Mathematics — Pomona College · 2020
- Summer Undergraduate Research fellow — sentiment analysis on 10,000+ diet-related tweets.
Skills
Machine learning — PyTorch, TensorFlow, OpenCV, CUDA, AWS SageMaker
Data & systems — Databricks, PySpark, dbt, Google Cloud, ROS2, Docker, Git, Linux
Languages — Python, C++, SQL
Contact
jdavid@zoox.com · Based in Atlanta, GA. Open to full-time roles in ML/AI engineering or research, on-site work and relocation.