Tara Stentz

Tara Stentz is a skilled Product Engineer currently working at Explo since January 2023. Prior experience includes roles as Senior Product Manager, Associate Product Manager, and Software Engineer II at Aurora, specializing in autonomous vehicles from January 2021 to January 2023. Tara also contributed to Uber's Advanced Technologies Group as a Prediction Software Engineer II and Prediction Software Engineer from September 2018 to January 2021, focusing on autonomous vehicle technology. Academic contributions comprise a position as Visiting Lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science in the summer of 2018, along with serving as Head Teaching Assistant for the introductory programming course from January 2015 to May 2018. Tara launched the CS Academy curriculum at Agahozo Shalom Youth Village and completed internships at Uber and Microsoft, concentrating on software engineering and product management in machine learning contexts. Tara holds a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a focus on Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, achieved in 2018.