David Ko
Staff Engineer at Nextracker Inc.
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Ko is a Staff Engineer and robotics leader with 15 years of experience building firmware, networked systems, and autonomous robot platforms across startups and product teams. He has held CTO and Chief Robotics Officer roles and contributed to commercial robotics at Wonder Workshop and Barobo, blending hands-on C/C++ firmware and OS-level networking with higher-level Python and Rust tooling. His Ph.D. from UC Davis focused on decentralized, massively scalable mobile-agent evolutionary algorithms for optimizing gaits, informing a pragmatic approach to scalable distributed control. David combines low-level control and automatic-control dynamics expertise with production engineering practices, shipping reliable embedded and robotic products. Based in California, he now applies that hybrid research-to-product background to systems-level challenges in robotics and solar tracking at Nextracker. Colleagues would note his uncommon pairing of academic depth in evolutionary robotics with long-term operational leadership in productized robotics.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Robotics, Evolutionary Algorithms, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Robotics, Evolutionary Algorithms at University of California, Davis
Github Skills (30)
rust10
compiler9
standard-library8
rust-lang8
pyserial7
crate7
rust-language7
garbage-collection7
allocator6
python4
asyncio3
javascript2
react2
cli2
structured-concurrency2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
IntegrationEngineeringLaboratory/ch_linkbot_binding
Nov 2014 - Nov 2017
Contributions:1 release, 91 commits, 78 pushes in 3 years
BaroboRobotics/linkbot-firmware
Jan 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:89 pushes, 10 branches, 22 tags in 1 year 4 months
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