Josh Finken
Staff Engineer at Motional
Park City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Finken is a Staff Engineer specializing in robotics software and autonomous systems with over 18 years of experience designing sensing, perception, and state-estimation pipelines across edge and cloud platforms. He has led cross-functional teams at companies from startups to enterprises, delivering lidar and multi-camera perception, GNSS/IMU fusion, and real-time ROS-based systems in C++ and Python. Josh combines hands-on implementation—DNN optimization for edge devices, multi-Extended Kalman Filter engines, and ROS2 performance benchmarking—with product-minded leadership that shipped navigation and collision-avoidance products. Comfortable in fast-paced, nimble environments, he has entrepreneurial roots from a Bay Area vision startup and a track record of contributing to open robotics stacks and community-facing middleware. Based in Park City, Utah, he blends systems-level architecture with low-level performance tuning, often surfacing subtle trade-offs between latency, accuracy, and deployability in constrained hardware.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA at Academy of Art UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Iowa State University
Spanish
Github Skills (119)
python10
deep-learning10
beaglebone-black10
i2c10
tensorflow10
machine-learning10
robot10
robotics9
markdown9
ml9
visual-odometry9
neural-network9
benchmark9
intel-edison9
bluetooth9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jfinken/nlp-course
Mar 2012 - Aug 2012
Contributions:19 commits in 4 months
jfinken/fuzzy-cmeans
Dec 2010 - Aug 2012
Contributions:7 commits in 1 year 8 months
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