Dashiell Kosaka
Software Engineer, Annapurna Labs, ML Accelerator Embedded Firmware
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDashiell Kosaka is a software and systems engineer with eight years of experience specializing in embedded firmware, radar signal processing, and ML-driven perception systems. Currently at AWS Annapurna Labs, he brings deep expertise in optimizing algorithms for constrained hardware—skills honed building interference mitigation, tracking, and sensor-fusion features at Uhnder after his startup PreSense was acquired. He co-created OpenRadar, an open-source mmWave radar toolkit used by researchers worldwide, and has a track record of turning MATLAB/Python prototypes into high-performance C++/CUDA implementations. His background spans remote sensing and satellite imagery ML at NCSA to full-stack embedded development, giving him rare end-to-end fluency from low-level drivers to deep learning models. Notably, his interference mitigation work restored over 20 dB SNR on targets and scaled automated CI/CD testing to reduce manual effort fivefold. Outside work he channels his curiosity into bouldering, dancing, and studying Japanese while prototyping new ideas on personal projects.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Spanish, Japanese
Github Skills (6)
python10
numpy10
beam10
data-analysis9
scipy8
machine-learning7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
PreSenseRadar/OpenRadar
Oct 2019 - Dec 2019
An open source library for interacting with and processing radar data, specialized for MIMO mmWave radars
Role in this project:
Data Scientist / ML Engineer
Data Scientist / ML EngineerContributions:16 commits, 6 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Dashiell primarily contributes to the development and improvement of mmWave radar data processing algorithms and associated tools. Their commits include updates to CFAR algorithms, demonstrating a focus on object detection techniques. Further contributions show work in angle estimation (Capon beamforming), and other related processing steps.
radar-processingradarmimoradarsradar-data
DashKosaka/dashkosaka.github.io
Jun 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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