Jonathan Decastro
Research Scientist at Toyota Research Institute
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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RockstarJonathan Decastro is a Research Scientist and Research Lead at Toyota Research Institute with 14 years of experience bridging academic rigor and production research in robotics and control. Based in Cambridge, MA, he brings a strong background from a PhD-era research trajectory at Cornell and prior roles at NASA and Impact Technologies, applying advanced algorithms to real-world systems. His contributions to the prominent RobotLocomotion/drake repository show hands-on expertise in model-based design, hybrid system examples, and robust backend implementation and testing. Comfortable moving between core system debugging, Windows builder fixes, and unit testing, he focuses on making complex dynamical models reliable and reproducible. Colleagues value his ability to translate theoretical insights into practical software tools that accelerate robot verification and deployment.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
debugging10
system10
c-language10
system-design10
software-design10
cprogramming-language10
sys10
drake10
unit-testing9
robotics8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
RobotLocomotion/drake
Jul 2016 - Jun 2018
Model-based design and verification for robotics.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:113 commits, 116 PRs, 40 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily focused on implementing and debugging core system functionalities. They fixed code style issues related to the 'runtime/string' filter and made several updates to initial conditions in the code. Further contributions include the first pass at a hybrid bouncing ball implementation as well as adding ball-in-flight examples. The user also unit tested the hybrid bouncing ball example and implemented fixes for the windows builder.
roboticsdrake
jadecastro/drake
Jul 2016 - Apr 2019
A planning, control, and analysis toolbox for nonlinear dynamical systems. More info at
Contributions:1480 pushes, 191 branches, 1 comment in 2 years 9 months
crosswordnonlineartoolboxdynamical-systemsanalysis
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