# Kevin Greene

> Principle Software Engineer / Robotics

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kevingreene2

My github: https://github.com/kgreenek

---- Current Focus ----
Robotics
C++ / Cuda / Rust / Python

---- Previously ----
Bitcoin Protocol and Industry
Audio & Music Software
iOS & Android Mobile App Development
Networking Protocols
Digital Signal Processing

---- Also ----
Entrepreneurship
Open Source Software
Bazel Advocate for Reproducible, Hermetic Builds

## Work Experience
### Principal Autonomy Engineer @ Kodama Systems
Jan 2023 – Present

### Software Engineer, Robotics @ Serve Robotics
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Founding team in Postmates X spin-off

### Software Engineer, Robotics - Localization & Mapping @ Postmates Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021

### Robotics Engineer @ Built Robotics
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019

### Senior Software Engineer (Robotics) @ area17
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
•	Led the technical side of projects from product planning through implementation and deployment
•	Built real-time probabilistic mapping frameworks for 2d and 3d, for planning and visualization applications (OpenCV, octomap, and in-house mapping solutions)
•	Implemented sampling-based global planning with OMPL
•	Designed and built complex state machines using behaviour trees and hierarchical finite state machines in both C++ and python
•	Maintained custom middleware implementation that supported C++ and python
•	Architected and released extensible, backwards-compatible APIs that are used by customers in the field for controlling autonomous robots, both on-device and in the cloud
•	Worked with customers from integration phase through on-site deployments of drones and ground robots
•	Implemented and enforced company-wide software standards for production-quality code -- including mentoring new employees on high quality code standards via code reviews, unit tests, etc.
•	Architected company-wide build system, which was hybrid of cmake and bazel, for reproducible, hermetic builds and easy release management

### Co-Founder @ Ghost Audio
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, CA
•	Led a team of designers, engineers, and music producers to create a platform for AI-generated music for video content creators
•	Implemented custom VSTs in C++ for music production

### Software Engineer (SWE) @ Google
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco, CA
Youtube - iOS Engineer (11/2012 - 10/2014)
•	Designed and built player controls
•	Implemented live-stream support
•	Built unrivaled enhanced captions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSm2rjSmaaQ

Payments (10/2014 - 6/2015)
•	Led product decisions and engineering team to build innovative new payments features

### Software Engineer @ Cisco Systems
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | San Jose, CA
•	Developed leading-edge routing protocol called LISP
•	Coded in C for the Nexus 7k, the fastest switch on the market
•	Designed user interface for the LISP Android Mobile app
•	Worked with high-priority customers to debug and fix issues in the field

### Software Intern @ General Atomics Aeronautical Systems
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Greater San Diego Area, CA
•	Wrote software for the MQ-9 Reaper drone pilot station

### Team Manager @ University of Southern California
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Los Angeles, CA
•	Managed two teams of computer science students to complete an 8-week long project in Java
•	Received personalized leadership training from a Microsoft program manager

### Software Engineer @ Link Communications, Inc.
Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 | Billings, MT
•	Optimized audio processing using ALSA libraries. Reduced audio latency by over 90%
•	Implemented adaptive audio delay functionality in C++. Selling point for inter-operability with MSAT satellite radios and Verizon push-to-talk phones
•	Created software DSP audio filter and audio processing toolkit
•	Devised and tested Watchdog application for uClinux. Monitors 7 other processes and has been shown to recover from nearly all otherwise-fatal errors


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Engineering & Computer Science, Entrepreneurship
University of Southern California


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kgreenek
- Portfolio: http://hexkvlt.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-12