# Ryan De Iaco

> Staff Software Engineer - Planning and Controls at Waymo

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ryandeiaco

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer - Planning and Controls @ Waymo
Jan 2020 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States

### Software Engineering Intern - Planning and Controls @ Waymo
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Mountain View, California, USA

### Subject Matter Expert @ Coursera
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Waterloo, Ontario
Developed course materials for Coursera's autonomous driving course related to motion planning. Includes developing the lecture slides and presentations, as well as the programming assignments and final project.

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ University of Waterloo
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Waterloo, Ontatio
TA for a variety of courses at the University of Waterloo, including Autonomous Driving, Robotics, and Digital Computers.

### Systems Software Engineer @ VectorBlox
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Vancouver, Canada Area
Worked on the maintenance and development of FPGA HDL and embedded software systems related to the development of a RISC-V processor.

### Electrical Team Lead @ UBC Thunderbots
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 | Vancouver
Each year, the UBC Thunderbots compete in the Small-Size League (SSL) at the international competition RoboCup. I worked on multiple projects for the electrical engineering sub-team, including analyzing electromechanical systems, writing firmware in C to control aspects of our robots, designing PCBs, and writing software in MATLAB/C++ to test high level designs. Also delegated projects to new members and ran tutorials to teach them new concepts.

### Systems Software Engineer @ VectorBlox
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Vancouver
Brought up FPGA-based systems to demonstrate performance gains of vector-accelerated hardware. Designed various bus interfaces in VHDL/Verilog to connect with various peripherals, such as AXI, APB, and SPI. Designed a programmable interrupt controller for a RISC-V processor. Wrote tests and fixed issues with the pipeline of a RISC-V processor.

### Software Engineer @ AVIDWORX Productions Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Vancouver
Worked part-time to develop an Android application in Java and a host client in C#. The application helps salespeople efficiently compare different audio setups for their customers.

### Systems Software Engineer @ VectorBlox
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Vancouver
Wrote signal processing software in Python for hotword detection, with applications to low power voice recognition. Later optimized the code in C for an FPGA-based vector-accelerated processor.


## Education
### Master's of Applied Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Waterloo

### Bachelor's Degree in Applied Science
The University of British Columbia


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12