Carlos Portillo

Senior Software Engineer Ii @Cruise

San Francisco, CA, US

Machine Learning Infrastructure team (July 2023 -)• Led and architected early-stage planning work for new products and features within Cruise’s machine learning infrastructure platform. Leveraged previous experience with chat and commenting systems to identify key deliverables, prototype scalable designs, and anticipate usage patterns for in-house messaging and annotation tools• Built upon and optimized visualization software rendering AV sensor data in 2D/3D space, helping accelerate both MLE and labeling workstreams by displaying camera, radar, and lidar projections from different angles. Added new logic to filter out point clouds by pulling in terrain data and improved performance when caching and masking information between frames• Handled SQL table creation with end-to-end integration into existing tooling, creating all necessary ORM, server, GraphQL, and frontend logic along the way. Tech stack was primarily Typescript and React (legacy and 18) on client, GraphQL, Go and go-pg/Bun on backend and PostgreSQL/BigQuery backing our data• Won the 2023 office fantasy football league

University of Southern California

Bachelor’s Degree, International Relations