Carlos Vanegas Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

San Francisco, Us

Building the Future of Manufacturing

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Built and led software engineering teams in charge of creating some of Rapid's key technology, including robotic fleet management and simulation

San Francisco, California, Us

Led and built from the ground up some of the Bright Machines software engineering teams, including Brightware Studio, Digital Twin and UX/UI Design. These teams built cloud-based software products to help customers design, program, simulate and operate Bright Machines robotic assembly lines, also known as Microfactories.• Led teams in delivering product features across multiple software releases while adapting to evolving company and product goals• Grew teams in San Francisco and Seattle from 2 to 20 people in the first year, and made critical hires including our Head of UX/UI Design and our Head of 3D Simulation• Passionate and committed leadership with technical depth and accountability, showing genuine care and appreciation for our engineers, architects and designers• Built a strong engineering culture based on trust, openness, unfiltered data-driven debate, commitment, accountability and autonomy• Reported to SVP of Engineering and to CTO and worked closely with the entire C-suite• Presented software product updates to company board• Coached, trained and promoted engineers at all levels, aiming for transparency and fairness in the process• Facilitated software architecture discussions and critical build-vs-buy decisions• Promoted commitment and loyalty to company mission and goals by team members, consistently achieving annual retention rates above 90%• Helped team members develop a deep sense of ownership towards the product features they create• Managed relations with company vendors and business partners in the software and industrial robotics sectors• Worked closely with sales and marketing in customer development• Worked closely with internal and external customers to understand their needs, pain points and priorities, seeking to build tight and frequent feedback loops during product development

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Senior Architect of the Forge Data Platform:• Led the design of the data architecture, data models and data management components of the Autodesk cloud platform, along with a collection of APIs and SDKs to interface with these components.• Co-authored, presented and promoted a unified data platform initiative to company executives, product teams and customers, at multiple internal and external events, including Autodesk University.• Worked with other software architects and product managers to identify common data modeling and data management needs across Autodesk architecture, engineering, construction and manufacturing products, including Revit, AutoCAD, Fusion, Inventor, Civil3D and Infraworks• Proposed a strategy to design, develop, and adopt common data solutions for Autodesk products.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Software architect and tech lead for Project Quantum• Software architect for Autodesk Urban Canvas

Berkeley, California, Us

Co-founder and CTO at Synthicity, a startup that built pioneering software applications to help planning professionals more effectively create and communicate urban plans with easy-to-use design and analytical tools. Acquired by Autodesk in 2015.• Established and built software development team (from 1 to 12 people by the time of acquisition).• Helped define company vision and goals.• Managed UrbanCanvas and GeoCanvas product development teams.• Co-designed architecture for UrbanCanvas and GeoCanvas.• Customer development in the public and private sectors, including city and regional planning organizations as well as architecture and urban design firms.• Participated in acquisition negotiations and managed due diligence process.Technical and IP contributions (C++, C, Qt):• Tile-based multithreaded rendering of raster and vector geospatial layers• OpenGL-based rendering of geographic assets using VBOs (results in interactive 3D navigation of large datasets containing 100s of millions of triangles• Vector layer theming with external indicators (fast in-memory indexed model allows re-coloring 100s of thousands of objects in under one second)• Parser for computer-generated architecture (CGA) grammars• Designed and implemented paintbrush-like interface for attribute editing and sampling across multiple map objects

Berkeley, Ca, Us

West Lafayette, In, Us

Research and development of several projects in Urban Modeling and Visualization

West Lafayette, In, Us

CS334: Fundamentals of Computer GraphicsCS240: Programming in C

Zürich, Ch

Visiting Graduate Research Assistant at the Chair for Information Architecture

Zürich, Zh, Ch

Medellín, Antioquia, Co

• Contributed to an academic software toolkit, DigitLab, for processing 3D scans of physical shapes processing 3D digitizations, written in C on top of AutoCAD ObjectARX.• Designed deterministic and stochastic algorithms for curve and surface reconstruction.• Designed a stochastic geometry application for determining wear regions in cylindrical surfaces, with applications in manufacturing.

Pontevedra, Es

• Implementation of a mobile crane simulator for operator training in C++, OGRE and ODE.

Pontevedra, Es

• Implementation of a software package for Design, Analysis and Manufacturing of Ship Hulls, written in C++ on top of the MicroStation SDK

Phd, Computer Science

Professional Education Course, Principles And Models For System Architecture

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Mathematical Engineering

Autodesk Technical Bootcamp