# Daniel Fuchs

> Software Engineer | Waymo Perception

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/danielfuchs

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer - Perception @ Waymo
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer - Perception @ Aurora
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
Iterating on model architectures, sensor inputs, and data quality.
Measuring performance, locating failure modes, and burning down problems.

### Software Engineer - Perception @ Waymo
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Bellevue, Washington, United States
Collaborated to extend sensor fusion models to longer ranges resulting in better long range perception and fewer behavioral issues on freeways.

Conducted latency analysis and tuned computational graphs to increase onboard throughput and unblock model launches.

Rapidly iterated on ML data extraction and sensor synchronization to facilitate sensor fusion experiments and reduced data distribution shift.

Unified ad hoc data mining pipelines into a standardized mining framework to pay down technical debt and facilitate easier data drill-down.

Built a novel labeling workflow and gathered a dataset of localized long range camera labels to improve camera localization models and validate existing evaluation methods.

### CSE 311 Teaching Assistant @ University of Washington
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Greater Seattle Area
Teaching Assistant for the "Foundations of Computing" course at the University of Washington covering logic, proofs, set theory, and other discrete mathematics. Responsible for teaching 30 students in a weekly section on fundamentals of CS theory, hosting weekly office hours for questions on material/homework, and grading weekly assignments.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View, California, United States
Implemented a large scale data pipeline in C++ to publish weekly digital rights management (DRM) reports for YouTube's partners. Also assisted in migrating DRM APIs from Python to C++.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Redesigned Palantir’s static asset server to enable continuous delivery of front end assets while remaining agnostic of server environment (on-prem, cloud, high-availability, etc).

### Software Engineering Intern @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Seattle Area
Collaborated to architect/implement a dataset listening microservice for performing massive set union/difference operations, storing the results, and publishing events to downstream services.

### Interning Software Engineer @ Whitepages
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Seattle Area
Full stack web service development working mainly in Scala. Created a server-driven website for visualizing/debugging the graph database and locating entity resolution errors.

### CSE 14X Teaching Assistant @ University of Washington
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Seattle
Teaching Assistant for the introductory Computer Science series at the University of Washington. Responsible for teaching a class of 24 students the fundamentals of Java and grading weekly coding assignments for correctness and readability.


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
University of Washington

### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
University of Washington


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29