Roy Pollock Email & Phone Number

Waterloo, Wal, Be

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Led a team enhancing the interactivity of the Kuri home robot, including a rules-based behavior engine. Diagnosed issues and improved heuristics for Kuri Vision, which captures 5 second videos of people and pets around your house based on computer vision. The improvements resulted in a significant boost to our moment engagement metrics. Supported initial deployment to a limited set of customers. Helped get the manufacturing line for custom time-of-flight sensors running.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Worked on Kuri, a consumer robot. Ported robot system software from ARM to x86. Developed embedded communication/control software for custom time-of-flight depth sensor. Developed a beat detection algorithm that enabled Kuri to dance to arbitrary music.

Software Development Lead for the Setup & Configuration Team, which is responsible for everything that happens from when you take a Sonos player out of its box to when it's ready to rock.I manage a 5 developer team working on supporting new hardware and new software features on our existing hardware. I also serve as technical lead doing high-level design and requirements, and I still write production code on a daily basis.

Developed embedded PPC and SH4 software for audio. Developed user interfaces inC++, Objective C, and Java on Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, iPhone OS, and Android.Was one of three developers on the Sonos Controller for iPhone launched in fall 2008.Led iPhone DOCK project from January 2010 as software engineering lead with up tothree other engineers contributing to the project. Served as a certified ScrumMaster of aneight person team for two years on projects like wireless surround setup and TV configuration for the PLAYBAR (Sonos soundbar) and 'Eliminator' which allows users to set up a full Sonos system talking directly to their home router without ever hard-wiring anything.

Santa Barbara, California, Us

Directed the work of two software developers and a technical writer and performedperformance evaluations. Continued development of significant projects. Mentored lessexperienced employees.

Santa Barbara, California, Us

Wrote board support, VME, network, and utility library code in C and assembly. Servedas technical lead/architect on a three developer project to make INTEGRITY the firstPOSIX.1-2001 API certified conformant operating system. Provided premium supportto customers including onsite consulting billed at $5,000 a day. Conducted requirementand cost-benefit analysis to encourage adaptation of JIRA for bug tracking; installed,maintained, and wrote Java to extend the JIRA server.

Developed major parts of a simulation harness designed to test the logical controlcode for an autonomous vehicle capable of navigating urban environments. Servedas "troubleshooter" helping track bad behavior in simulations or field testing to codeissues.