Kathleen Brandes

CTO

San Francisco, California, United States7 yrs 10 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Led autonomous vehicle projects at MIT and Tesla.
  • Co-founded a robotics startup with innovative technology.
  • Achieved gold medal in international synthetic biology competition.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a highly skilled engineer in autonomous systems and robotics.

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Skills

Core Skills

Autonomous SystemsAlgorithm DevelopmentBiological EngineeringData Analysis

Other Skills

Biological Circuit DesignC++GitMixed Integer Quadratic ProgrammingPythonROS

Experience

Generalist ai

Member of the Technical Staff

Mar 2025Present · 1 yr · San Mateo, California, United States

Adagy robotics

Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Dec 2023Jan 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo · New York, United States

Tesla

Senior Software Engineer - Autopilot

Mar 2022Dec 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States

  • Autopilot motion planning team; TeslaBot machine learning manipulation team

Boston dynamics

Software Engineer

Aug 2019Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Mit driverless

Path Planning & Controls Engineer

Sep 2018Aug 2019 · 11 mos

  • MIT Driverless team, partnered with TU Delft University, placed 3rd overall in the electric, autonomous race car division at Formula Student Germany.
  • Designed and developed a mixed integer quadratic program to robustly define the feasible driving region of the track while the vehicle maps the tracks
  • Integrated and extensively tested the entire autonomous pipeline on vehicle in the Netherlands

Ab initio software

Software Engineer Intern

Jun 2018Aug 2018 · 2 mos · Lexington, Massachusetts

Ntopology inc.

Software Engineering Intern

Jun 2017Aug 2017 · 2 mos · Greater New York City Area

Synthetic biology center

Undergraduate Researcher

Jan 2016Nov 2016 · 10 mos · Weiss Lab

  • Competed in the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition (iGEM), where we won a gold medal, and were nominated for best poster and best plasmid collection. My team, consisting of myself and 11 other undergraduate students, is working to develop a biological circuit that will detect endometriosis in a uterine biopsy sample. Did high throughput data analysis with a python algorithm I wrote to correct and interpret flow cytometry data.

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Science - BS — Computer Science; Mathematics

Jan 2015Jan 2019

Ravenscroft High School

High school diploma

Jan 2011Jan 2015

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