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Yernar Smagulov - Autonomous Vehicle Operations Engineer in Foster City, CA

Yernar Smagulov

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in autonomous vehicle operations and test automation

ZooxUC BerkeleyFoster City, CA4 Years ExperienceMid LevelWorks On-Site

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Hands-on Python/IoT engineer with experience spanning research labs and autonomous vehicles (Zoox), focused on making data/decision-support systems reliable in production. Has deployed and Dockerized Python tools with pinned dependencies, built sensor-based on-prem data collection systems (aquafeed evaluation), and troubleshot telemetry issues down to a failing switch port using logs, multimeter checks, and network diagnostics.

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Key Strengths

  • Stabilized a research decision-support tool by refactoring DataFrame handling and adding data validation
  • Improved cross-machine reliability by containerizing Python tooling with Docker and pinning dependencies
  • Methodical end-to-end troubleshooting across software, hardware, and networking (isolated flaky network/switch port causing telemetry drops)
  • Customer/user-driven development: standardized varied inputs and iterated with researchers to align on priorities and real-world workflows
  • IoT + data systems implementation: integrated sensors with Python for reliable on-prem data capture and Dockerized deployment

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Experience

Autonomous Vehicle Operations EngineerZoox · Apr 2025 – Present
Software EngineerGlomood AI · Oct 2024 – Apr 2025
Software EngineerKapuscinski-Sarker Lab · Jun 2022 – Oct 2024

Education

UC Berkeleymaster, Information and Data Science (2027)

Languages

English

Certifications

Google IT Support Professional CertificatePython For Everybody Specialization Certificate

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Yernar SmagulovMid-level Software Engineer specializing in autonomous vehicle operations and test automation