# David Weis

> Robotics Software Engineer @ Fauna Robotics

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/davidweis

Robotics software engineer. Currently working on huamoid robots. 
Very interested in Robotics and anything Rust. 
He/Him

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Fauna Robotics
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States
Robots that live, work, and play by our sides

### Senior Software Engineer @ Wayve
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | London, England, United Kingdom
Worked as a technical lead on Wayve’s Next Generation Robotics Platform

Leading the technical development of Wayve’s next-generation robotics platform, a comprehensive hardware and software project aimed at scaling the operational fleet to thousands of Data Collection and Autonomous Vehicles.

Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborated with the hardware team to design and build a next-generation vehicle platform equipped with custom compute and sensor hardware.
- Developed a modular software stack capable of operating as autonomous vehicles or data collection devices across various hardware configurations.
- Led the effort to integrate software support for custom hardware and a multitude of sensors, including Cameras, Radar, Audio Sensors, Lidar, etc.
- Collaborated with OEMs to design a Drive-By-Wire system adaptable to a range of different vehicles.
- Engineered the system for high reliability and low maintenance, facilitating deployment in third-party partner fleets.

### Senior Production Engineer @ Wayve
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | London, England, United Kingdom
Worked on the Robot Platform team, primarily focused on maintaining a high-reliability and low-latency system that supports Wayve's entire Autonomous Vehicle (AV) stack. This role encompasses development, operational maintenance, and reliability assurance.

Notable Projects and Contributions:
- Lead Engineer in Robot Reliability: Significantly enhanced the Mean Time To Failure (MTTF) of our robots from less than 1 hour to over 300 hours.
- Developed Low-Latency Messaging System: Implemented a system based on RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) and shared memory to ensure swift data transmission.
- Implemented Over-The-Air (OTA) Updates: Oversaw the rollout of OTA updates for the entire AV stack, including UI, drivers, driving models, and the operating system.
- On-Call Support for Fleet Operations: Provided crucial support for fleet operations, including high-profile VIP demonstrations.
- Enhanced Fleet Observability and Telemetry: Added comprehensive live observability and telemetry features across the entire fleet, supporting our scaling and reliability initiatives.
- End-to-End Testing Strategy: Played a pivotal role in implementing an end-to-end testing strategy that includes hardware-in-the-loop testing and re-simulation of previously recorded data.

### Autonomous Vehicle Engineer @ Oxbotica
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Oxford, United Kingdom
- System performance 
- End to end autonomous platform testing
- Fleet and vehicle health monitoring systems

### Robotics Engineer @ Casta Spes Technologies
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Edinburgh, United Kingdom
As the software lead for a robotics startup, developed a navigation stack and a fleet management platform for an autonomous security robot.

### Postgraduate Student @ Heriot-Watt University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Participated in a competition for European Robotics League, building an assisted living robot. 
Worked on real-time teleoperation platform for the Husky UGV.
Dissertation on obstacle detection and traversal for legged robots.

### Software Engineer @ Insero Air Traffic Solutions
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Denmark
- Safety cirtical aitraffic managment systems
- ILS systems
- Research into use of mixed reality in airtraffic control

### Guest Lecturer @ VIA University College
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Denmark
Prepared and taught an eight-week course covering programming fundamentals, including Windows/Linux administration, developer mindset, debugging and troubleshooting strategies, programming language history, programming methodologies, and tools such as Git.

Organized and ran many official workshops in Robotics, .NET, Java, General software development tooling, OOP design patterns, and version control with Git.

Worked as a teaching assistant for Lego Robot Lab and .NET programming course including teaching lessons on ASP.NET Core and WPF with MVVM


## Education
### MSc. Robotics in Autonomous and Interactive Systems, Robotics, Autonomous and Interactive Systems
Heriot-Watt University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019

### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Information and Communication Technology Engineering
VIA University College
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/david-weis
- Website: https://davidweis.dev/

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Last updated: 2026-04-01