# Jim Shuma > Software Engineer, Manager & Technical Leader Location: Los Gatos, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jimshuma • Engineering leader and hands-on technical contributor with 20+ years of experience building impactful products and highly effective teams across Google, Meta, Wing, Verily, and Apple. • Specializing in fostering positive, high-performance cultures, growing talent, collaborating cross-functionally, and setting technical vision while delivering against aggressive timelines. • I bring a generalist’s versatility—from graphics, Android/iOS and AR to NLP, machine learning, and surgical robotics—paired with deep system design experience and strong coding fluency in Java, C++, and Objective-C. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Wing Jan 2025 – Present | Palo Alto, CA Building geospatial infrastructure driving Wing's drone delivery network. ### Software Engineering Manager, Machine Learning @ Meta Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Sunnyvale, CA • Supported the Data-Centric AI team in Meta’s Monetization org, directly managing software engineers, ML engineers, and research scientists. • Supported improvements to Meta’s most critical ad targeting models, spanning the full lifecycle from early exploration and prototyping, to production implementation and final rollout. • Provided career coaching and technical mentorship across roles, fostering growth and increasing cross-functional collaboration. ### Software Engineering Manager: Lens in Maps / Live View @ Google Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Mountain View, CA • Led a team to deliver augmented reality–based understanding of the world around you within the Google Maps app. • Launched new Google Maps features across a progressively increasing footprint, now in dozens of high-impact cities globally. • Drove development of native Android and iOS functionality, plus a cross-platform library and backend in the cloud. ### Software Engineer / Tech Lead: Semantic Engineering @ Google Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, CA Led a project to improve understanding of natural language, as well as how it's handled throughout the Knowledge stack. ### Software Engineering Manager @ Facebook Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Menlo Park, CA • Managed a team in R&D Data Infrastructure, developing confidential internal tooling, involving compilers and SQL. • Brought the team through the debut release of a major tool, and oversaw development of ambitious new functionality. ### Tech Lead/Manager: Surgical Robotics System Software @ Verily Life Sciences Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View, CA • Collaborated closely with Johnson & Johnson on the Verb Surgical robot for laparoscopic surgery. • Led implementation (C++11) of system software for a surgical robot from early development, including device drivers, FPGA control, a novel window manager, an SDK, middleware, cloud connectivity, and early integration efforts with HL7 and PACS. • Operated aggressively in an agile environment, amid requirements that were frequently changing or entirely missing. Maintained high development velocity in a tightly regulated environment. • Landed major releases to Johnson & Johnson, and completed in-hospital installations during development. ### Tech Lead/Manager: Google Maps: Roads & Rapid Update @ Google Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Mountain View, CA • Led two teams of software engineers building data processing software and automated tools to construct the best worldwide map data available. • Contributed to ground-breaking research devising novel systems for keeping a planet's worth of map data fresh and accurate. • Overhauled a team’s charter, converting an inefficient, engineer-driven process into one powered by machines operating autonomously, synthesizing massive amounts of data from several disparate sources. ### Tech Lead, Ground Truth Import @ Google Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Mountain View, CA Tech lead for a team of around a dozen engineers handling new data generation, driving implementation of a collection of smart tools forming the core of how Google Maps keeps up to date. ### Software Engineer: Ground Truth @ Google Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Mountain View, CA Spearheaded the launch of dozens of countries of map data, and implemented tools for data refinement. ### Software Engineer: Android: Google Books @ Google Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Mountain View, CA Implemented the graphical user experience on the book reader for the Honeycomb release, with a heavy emphasis on eye-catching 3D graphics using Android's new Renderscript system. ### Software Engineer @ Apple Inc. Jan 2006 – Jan 2010 | Cupertino, CA • iOS: Helped build the Photos app as part of the original iPad launch (Objective-C, Cocoa Touch). • Pro Apps: Professional-grade rendering (OpenGL, Objective-C++) on DVD Studio Pro, Motion, and an unreleased app. ### Software Engineer @ Lockheed Martin Jan 2003 – Jan 2006 | Orlando, FL Added advanced rendering techniques to the Readi-Sim flight simulator. ### Intern, Software Engineering @ Northrop Grumman Jan 2002 – Jan 2002 | Pittsburgh, PA Developed desktop application for annotating imagery of underwater land mines. ### Intern, Software Engineering @ Intel Jan 2001 – Jan 2001 | Hillsboro, OR Developed tools for statistical analysis of high-volume production data. ### Intern, Software Engineering @ Zaxel Systems Jan 2000 – Jan 2000 | Pittsburgh, PA Contributed to functionality for rendering synthetic imagery. ## Education ### B.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering Carnegie Mellon University ### M.S. in Computer Engineering University of Florida ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jshuma --- Source: https://flows.cv/jimshuma JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jimshuma/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11