David Ball
Technical Program Manager at Waymo
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Ball is a Technical Program Manager with a decade of industry experience and two decades of hands-on robotics and mechatronics expertise, now driving complex autonomous vehicle programs at Waymo. He has led global cross-site execution and system integrations—most recently managing the merge of two AV technology stacks at nuTonomy/Aptiv—and excels at turning research prototypes into production-ready systems. His background spans academic leadership as a chief investigator and field-robotics lab founder to applied engineering roles building controllers, navigation, and perception for real-world deployments. Notably, he has presented robotics work internationally (ROSCon, IROS, ICRA) and secured multi-million dollar government funding for agricultural robotics. An Australian based in the U.S., he blends rigorous PhD-level research with pragmatic program delivery, mentoring teams across continents to deliver measurable progress. Practical, communicative, and strategically minded, he brings rare depth in both the technical design and programmatic orchestration of autonomy projects.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Mathematics, OP1, High School, Mathematics, OP1 at HillbrookBachelor’s Degree, Computer Systems and Electrical Engineering with Mechatronics Minor, First Class Honours, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Systems and Electrical Engineering with Mechatronics Minor, First Class Honours at The University of Queensland
English
Github Skills (38)
slam10
rendering9
javascript9
webgl9
canvas9
phaser9
autonomous-robots9
python8
nodes8
game-development8
mobile-web8
2d-game8
nonlinear7
desktop7
robot7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
davidmball/ratslam
Jan 2018 - Jan 2023
Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/ratslam
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes, 26 comments in 5 years 1 month
mappingpythonautonomous-robots
davidmball/online_ros
Jun 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:105 commits, 9 PRs, 58 pushes in 3 months
compileweb-site
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