Daiki Maekawa
Lead Robotics Software Engineer at Dyson
Singapore
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Top SchoolDaiki Maekawa is a lead robotics software engineer with 17 years of experience designing and shipping autonomous systems across startups and industry, currently driving robotics software at Dyson in Singapore. He builds end-to-end robot stacks—navigation, sensor fusion, behavior orchestration, simulation, and GUIs—often integrating novel sensors like 3D LiDAR, ToF cameras and probabilistic lidar-sonar fusion. Daiki has repeatedly bridged business and engineering, leading product launches and establishing development processes as a certified ScrumMaster. Early-stage experience at Rapyuta and founding the ROS Japan Users Group underline his penchant for community building and architecting systems from scratch. Notable achievements include leading competition-grade field robots that completed long-distance outdoor runs and creating Gazebo and RViz tooling to make complex robot behavior testable. Outside work he frames himself as living “as wildlife on the Robotics ecosystem,” reflecting a hands-on, exploratory approach to solving real-world robotic problems.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Robotics, Bachelor’s Degree, Robotics at Chiba Institute of Technology
Japanese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (150)
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image-processing10
mini-cart10
ros10
mjpeg10
object-tracking10
alpine-linux10
robotics10
ignition10
face-tracking10
publisher10
video-capture10
simulation10
gazebosim10
lists10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
DaikiMaekawa/itamae-plugin-recipe-ros
Aug 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:94 PRs, 55 pushes, 95 branches in 29 days
itamaerositamae-pluginros2
DaikiMaekawa/quadrotor_moveit_nav
Jan 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:248 commits, 88 PRs, 77 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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