# Tevon Walker > Software Engineer. Cloud. Robotics. Machine Learning. AI Location: Atlanta Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/tevon Highly motivated and experienced computer programmer with vast background in machine learning, robotics, electronics, cloud backend, and distributed systems. Well versed in Python, skilled at taking open-ended, ambiguous problems from initial ideation to production. Currently seeking roles in computer vision, machine learning, and backend development. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack @ The Home Depot Jan 2023 – Present | Atlanta, Georgia, United States Developed React UI components for GPT-like chatbot application for in-store associates to assist customers. Added backend integrations with Google Gemini Agentic flow via prompt engineering and tool calling. Integrated Pendo user analytics to provide insights on how users are interacting with specific features of the application. Deployed computer vision models to the cloud (Vertex AI) for various in‑store applications and services powering the daily analysis of 10's of thousands of images across thousands of stores with low latency Combined GCP cloud services such as Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Vertex AI, GKE, Artifact Registry, BigQuery along with AI models and Python web frameworks to create RESTful APIs and asynchronous background processes for computer vision tasks Integrated multi-modal LLMs (Gemini, GPT-o4), into one-shot object detection pipelines for product recognition Optimized CV models for deployment on edge compute (TensorRT+ Nvidia Jetson) Added instrumentation, logging, and unit testing to computer vision code, increasing app observability and robustness Leveraged GitHub Actions to automate Docker builds and code testing/deployment workflows Performed end-to-end load testing of APIs for capacity estimation and optimization ### Computer Vision and Machine Learning Engineer II @ Tortuga AgTech Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 Led the creation of deep learning models for robotic perception. Developed and deployed machine learning models to enable our robots to pick at 95% quality. Developed and deployed machine learning models to enable our robots to navigate within several farms robustly. Developed the dataset creation, training, and evaluation section of our MLOps system, enabling rapid turnaround of ML models. Wrapped Pytorch computer vision models in ROS nodes, creating an on-robot deployment environment for ML models. Created web-based tools to make ML accessible to other engineers across different teams for debugging and testing. ### Robotics and Machine Learning Engineer @ Tortuga AgTech Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Denver, Colorado, United States Enabling perception of fruit picking robot ### Robotics and Machine Learning Intern @ Tortuga AgTech Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Denver, Colorado, United States Developing computer vision models (object detection, classification, 3D computer vision, semantic segmentation) and cloud-based deep learning infrastructure (MLOps) to power the perception subsystem for an autonomous fruit harvesting robot. Building internal web-based tools for model training and evaluation. ### Graduate Research Assistant @ Georgia Tech Research Institute Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States Applied state of the art deep learning and robotics techniques such as object detection and 6D pose estimation to food processing. Developed computer vision pipelines that enabled the dexterous robotic manipulation of poultry products. Developed camera calibration software enabling high-fidelity 3D reconstruction. http://www.fptd.gatech.edu/ ### Robotics Institute Summer Scholar Research Intern @ Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Applied deep learning techniques for computer vision tasks for agricultural automation and analysis. Used computer vision for automated grape counting and apple size measuring. https://riss.ri.cmu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2017-RISS-Working-Papers-Journal-Final.pdf ### Robotics Intern @ NASA/GEORGE C MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Huntsville, Alabama, United States Developed cubic interpolation path planning and PID control system used to guide prototype robotic satellite guidance, navigation, and control (GNC). Wrote Java code on Android phone used to guide robotic test bed. ### Research Assistant @ Rotorcraft Systems Engineering and Simulation Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Huntsville, Alabama, United States Worked closely with electrical engineers to research, prototype, and design printed circuit boards to facilitate the operation of a power/hydraulic supply and diagnostic tool for helicopters. Our boards acted as the bridge between low-level sensors/actuators and FPGAs. Gained end-to-end experience in electrical engineering design from initial part (integrated circuit/discrete component) research and selection to schematic design to printed circuit board layout in Altium designer to soldering components/assembling cable harness to oscilloscope and multi-meter debugging and finally integration with overall system. https://www.uah.edu/rsesc ### Student Chief Engineer @ Northrop Grumman Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Huntsville, Alabama, United States Acted as chief engineer for multidisciplinary, inter-major senior design capstone course. Led development of counter-UAS system. Developed electrical design, embedded system, and software alongside other students. Successfully led research and development with moderate success of counter-UAS cyber-attacks. https://www.uah.edu/undergraduate-research/news/11447-northrop-grumman-drone-challenge-spawns-cross-campus-collaboration ### Junior Software Engineer @ Lockheed Martin Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Orlando, Florida, United States Developed code to drive helicopter simulation functionality. Worked collaboratively within scrum team to deliver C++. Shadowed software engineers and learned basic version control and Linux. https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/who-we-are/business-areas/rotary-and-mission-systems.html ### Engineers For Exploration Research Intern @ University of California, San Diego - Jacobs School of Engineering Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Diego, California, United States Developed sensor integration and control system for hybrid drone research platform. Applied embedded systems programming (I2C and UART) to enable sensor reading and telemetry to drone ground station. Created graphical user interface (GUI) to present operator with drone state. http://e4e.ucsd.edu/news-and-updates/2015-summer-reu ### Research Intern @ The University of Alabama in Huntsville Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Huntsville, Alabama, United States Worked closely with professor and graduate student to investigate neural network modelling of robot dynamic model. Ran experiments, collected data, developed hardware/software for robot operation. Compiled data for National Science Foundation. https://www.uah.edu/news/research/students-autonomous-robot-project-could-be-a-lifesaver ### Active Club Member @ The Space Hardware Club at UAH Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Huntsville, Alabama, United States Designed printed circuit board (PCB) that integrated power supply, micro-controller, atmospheric sensors, radio telemetry, and satellite actuation for international mock satellite competition. Wrote C code to facilitate satellite state machine (sensor reading, data backup and telemetry, and actuation). Project placed 3rd in international student engineering competition. https://www.uah.edu/news/research/uah-space-hardware-club-teams-place-highly-at-cansat-competition ## Education ### Private Pilot License in VFR PPL Skybound Aviation Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science Georgia Institute of Technology Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering The University of Alabama in Huntsville Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tevon-walker-36b22478 --- Source: https://flows.cv/tevon JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/tevon/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22