# David Silver > Software Engineer at Kodiak Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/davidsilver I work on self-driving trucks at Kodiak! Read my thoughts about self-driving cars at davidsilver.blog :-) Email me at d.silver@kodiak.ai or dsilver829@gmail.com. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Kodiak Robotics Jan 2022 – Present I write planning, control, simulation, and mapping software for self-driving trucks! ### Senior Software Engineer @ Cruise Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area I worked on architecture and acceleration of motion planning and vehicle controls. ### Senior Software Engineer at Voyage (Acquired by Cruise) @ Cruise Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 Prior to the Cruise acquisition, I worked on Voyage's Decision-Making Team, improving the vehicle controller. ### Senior Manager, Curriculum @ Udacity Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View, California, United States I led Udacity's instructional team to produce the world's best software engineering courses :-) ### Lead, Self-Driving Cars @ Udacity Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Mountain View, California I love self-driving cars and I work on self-driving cars at Udacity! ### Autonomous Vehicle Engineer @ Ford Motor Company Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Palo Alto, California I am worked on Ford's autonomous vehicle team and it was awesome! I was a member of the domain controller group, evaluating hardware platforms for autonomous vehicles. I also worked on computer vision and localization projects. Stack: C, C++, Matlab ### Founder and Architect @ Candidate Metrics (acquired by HireVue) Jan 2010 – Jan 2015 | San Mateo, California I developed a candidate assessment platform for recruiters, and I bootstrapped the business. I managed many roles, primarily engineering and sales, but also product management, marketing, finance, operations, and human resources. HireVue, a leading talent assessment platform, acquired the Candidate Metrics in 2016. Stack: Ruby, Rails, MySQL, jQuery, Ajax, Bootstrap, AWS EC2 and RDS, ActiveMQ ### Teaching Assistant @ Stanford Graduate School of Business Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 | Stanford, California Teaching Assistant for a range of entrepreneurship courses, including STRAMGT 354: Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital. ### Consultant @ movecoach Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | San Mateo, California Advising and consulting on sales, engineering, and business development to help people get active and healthy. ### Product Manager @ mSpot (acquired by Samsung) Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 | Palo Alto, California Managed three mobile software products with over $4 million annual sales: • mSpot Movies™ • mSpot Make-UR-Tones™ • mSpot Music Sync™ Management of movies and music products from initial conception through launch. ### Software Marketing Intern @ Scalent Systems Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 Developed extensive marketing collateral and sales support documentation. Created an ROI calculator for sales support. Engaged public relations partners to maximize company visibility. ### Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar @ Rotary International Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 • Represented Virginia Rotary District 7610 throughout southern Brazil • Worked in the Applied Statistics Lab at the Federal University of Santa Catarina ### Software Developer @ AOL Jan 2001 – Jan 2004 | Reston, Virginia • Developed data center monitoring and reporting tools in Java and Perl • Designed software for scalability, to handle 5 million variables • Created financial reporting software for the negotiation of telecommunications contracts Stack: Java, JSP, Perl ## Education ### MBA in Business Stanford University Graduate School of Business ### BSE in Computer Science Princeton University ### Thomas Jefferson High School for Scient and Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dsilver829 - Portfolio: https://davidsilver.blog --- Source: https://flows.cv/davidsilver JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/davidsilver/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12