Joost Wooning
Software Engineer at Boskalis
Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolJoost Wooning is a software engineer based in Delft with 11 years of experience focused on high-performance and visualization systems. He has shipped production software across domains from maritime/offshore to autonomous driving, notably contributing significant refactors and performance improvements to comma.ai’s openpilot—an influential open-source driver assistance OS supporting hundreds of cars. At comma.ai he acted as product owner for consumer web apps and improved core subsystems like the UI, camera stack and control loops, demonstrating both frontend and low-level systems skill. His background includes applied engineering roles in offshore and web development, and an MSc in Computer Science from TU Delft. Colleagues value him for finding pragmatic, architecture-level improvements that yield measurable runtime gains. He combines hands-on C++ and full-stack work with a particular knack for making visualization and real-time systems run leaner.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
TU Delft
Github Skills (14)
system10
robotics10
c-language10
driver10
cprogramming-language10
python10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
sys9
opencl9
uid9
embedded9
opencv8
cicd8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
commaai/openpilot
Apr 2021 - Jun 2022
openpilot is an operating system for robotics. Currently, it upgrades the driver assistance system on 275+ supported cars.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 29 commits, 40 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Joost's contributions primarily focused on enhancing and refactoring the openpilot system, demonstrating a deep understanding of the project's architecture. They worked on a variety of tasks including integrating new features like adding a flag to process replay config, converting locationd to C++, and implementing asynchronous parameter updates within locationd. Moreover, they also tackled UI improvements, refining the user interface for better usability.
cruise-controlracingopenpilotadaptiveadaptive-cruise-control
commaai/comma-api
Mar 2021 - Aug 2022
comma API client library
Contributions:22 commits, 6 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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