Simon Desai

Simon Desai is a skilled Software Engineer with extensive experience in various roles within the technology sector. They began their career as a Senior Software Engineer at NASA Ames Research Center, focusing on wind tunnel data acquisition, and worked at Trimble Navigation and Zexel/Visteon/Horizon in senior and director-level positions. From 2004 to 2012, Simon served as a Navigation Architect at deCarta and a Mapping Architect at Dash Navigation, before contributing to Google's Maps team from 2012 to 2023. Currently, Simon is a Staff Autonomy Engineer at Glydways, specializing in personal rapid transit systems. Simon earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.