Ioan Sucan
Software Engineer at Waymo
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIoan Sucan is a software engineer and motion-planning researcher with 17 years of experience building practical autonomy for robots and self-driving cars, currently leading a motion-planning team at Waymo in Palo Alto. He combines deep academic training (PhD/MS in Computer Science) with hands-on systems work dating back to developing OMPL and MoveIt at Willow Garage—widely used open-source motion planning projects. His expertise spans algorithms for dynamic environments, distributed and shared-memory parallel programming, and production-ready backend engineering. Notably, he has contributed focused refactors and interoperability fixes to the flagship MoveIt repository, improving maintainability and planner integrations that help bridge research and deployable systems.
17 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Rice UniversityBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Jacobs University BremenColegiul National "Moise Nicoara"
Github Skills (7)
c-language10
refactoring10
robotics10
cprogramming-language10
kinematics10
motion-planning10
kin10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
moveit/moveit
Sep 2016 - Apr 2017
:robot: The MoveIt motion planning framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 PR, 1 push, 2 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Ioan's contributions primarily revolved around modifying class names to remove "Evaluator" from them within the `moveit/moveit` repository, which is a motion planning framework for robots. This suggests a focus on code refactoring and potentially improving the codebase's clarity or maintainability. Additional changes show the user making fixes to help development of the ompl_interface, including improving conversions and setting up planning contexts.
roboticsmotionrobotmoveitplanning
ros-planning/moveit_plugins
Jul 2013 - Jan 2016
Contributions:28 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 6 months
planningroboticsrosmoveit
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