# Alessandro Iyra

> Software Development Engineer in Test at Zoox

Location: Oakland, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alessandro

Experienced System Test Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the aerospace and automotive industries.

## Work Experience
### Software Development Engineer in Test @ Zoox
Jan 2023 – Present

### Software Development Engineer In Test @ Cruise
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Developed automated CI/CD framework tools, including nightly soak-testing, code-repo merge gates, and Slack- integration for build-status reporting for sim-agent AI system, resulting in significantly reduced bug-escapes
- Implemented a SW-release process for the sim-agent AI system to verify simulation tool performance
- Scripted performance-metrics tools for sim-agent AI system and created tracking dashboards for easy analysis
- Organized and executed a sim-framework migration of over 3000 scenarios, resulting in ~$500k saved per quarter

### Systems Test Engineer @ Cruise
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California
- Designed test-plans and authored test-cases to validate the safety and efficacy of new AV maneuver-planning features (test-plan designs included simulation and on-road validation scenarios)
- Leveraged parametric-sweep testing and fuzz-testing to detect safety issues and surface failing edge-cases, which allowed for bug fixes to be developed before any real-world impact could occur on the road
- Conducted technical phone screens and interviews of hiring candidates for STE roles at Cruise
- Monitored Cruise mono-repo build-and-test pipelines to ensure proper escalation and resolution of build issues
- Implemented a metrics dashboard to investigate build issues which reduced time to diagnose by 50%

### Space Systems Engineer @ Planet
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
•	Operational Shift-Lead: over 3000 hrs. of ops-shift experience with over 250 on-orbit anomalies resolved as lead
•	Program Ops software systems & tools using Python, C/C++, SQL systems in Linux and MacOS environments
•	Developed fleet-ops procedures and automation-software which increased imaging uptime by 30% per anomaly
•	Worked with flight software team to expedite on-orbit embedded software updates by up to 20% per spacecraft

### Satellite Controller @ Terra Bella (formerly Skybox Imaging)
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Mountain View, CA
Satellite Controller for satellite constellation operations at Google Terra Bella

### Aerospace Engineer @ Skycart
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
- Designing, developing, and testing the drone Emergency Parachute Recovery System for the drone Platform.
- Developing test-plans and overseeing flight-test operations in the field. 
- Designing and developing overall drone platform.
- Coordinating and hiring outside contractors and manufactures to develop drone platform hardware.

### Associate Software Engineer @ EXB Solutions, Inc
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
Developed and improved core flight software tests for the Lockheed C5 Flight System. Tests were written developed in a proprietary Honeywell development environment which is used to verify Ada and C language flight system code. Performed requirements based-testing in accordance to the DO-178B standard for testing.

### Teaching Assitant @ MIT Gordon Engineering Leadership Program
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Cambridge, MA

### Small Unmanned Aerial Systems Engineer @ Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Cambridge, MA
- Improved UAV navigation and control algorithm by combining GPS and magnetometer data readings
- Managed junior intern; oversaw assembly and development of experimental payload distribution UAV

### Fatigue & Fractures Engineering Intern @ Bell Helicopter
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
- Developed material stress/strain analysis software using Java & MATLAB; currently in use by Bell
- Expedited a contracting project 2 weeks behind schedule by streamlining employee testing procedures
- Researched and performed analysis of material structural properties of prototype composites

### Undergraduate Student Researcher @ MIT Space Systems Lab
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Cambridge, MA
- Designed satellite testing hardware using SolidWorks; machined hardware using CNC mill and lathe
- Developed software to evaluate battery performance using Java & MATLAB


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Autonomous Control Systems
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Aerospace Engineering with Information Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alessandro-iyra

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Last updated: 2026-03-23