Joshua Bialkowski
Engineering Manager - Simulation
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Bialkowski is an engineering manager and robotics software expert with 12+ years designing and shipping autonomy systems across embedded flight controllers, vehicle stacks, and cloud-enabled simulation at companies like NVIDIA, Skydio, and Google. He leads teams building lightweight engineering simulators and replay tooling for autonomous driving, advocating rigorous test discipline, developer productivity, and practical verification approaches. Deeply fluent in C++, C, and Python, he moves comfortably between bare-metal drivers and distributed CI/cloud tooling, and contributes to notable open-source projects such as cmake_format and Buildbot. His background spans aerodynamics, motion planning, and optimal trajectory solvers—work that has taken prototypes from motion-capture labs to regulated airspace and real roads. Colleagues rely on him to translate hard research problems into maintainable, production-grade software and to push simulation fidelity that directly informs vehicle safety.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Aeronautics and Astronautics, Master of Science (M.S.), Aeronautics and Astronautics at MITDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Aeronautics and Astronautics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Aeronautics and Astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.S.), Aerospace Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech
English, French
Github Skills (26)
json10
parser10
jsbridge10
continuous-integration10
jira10
python10
apidoc10
php-java-bridge10
testing10
cmake10
cli-framework10
buildbot10
go10
api10
react-native-bridge10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cheshirekow/cmake_format
May 2016 - May 2021
Source code formatter for cmake listfiles.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:20 releases, 46 commits, 39 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Joshua contributed significantly to the development and maintenance of the `cmake_format` project, a source code formatter for CMake listfiles. They implemented features such as bracket comment and argument parsing, added command specifications, and refactored the parser to a single-pass implementation. The user also worked on improving the test suite and integrating the project with continuous integration pipelines, including adding a VSCode extension and configuring build rules.
cmakeformattersdevtools
git-bug/git-bug
Nov 2019 - Feb 2020
Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in git
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 4 PRs, 1 push in 3 months
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily contributed to the implementation of a JIRA bridge, suggesting work on integrating external bug tracking systems. The commits involved writing code to interact with the JIRA API, including features for issue creation, comment management, and status updates. Key changes include modifications to import and export functions, as well as configuration updates to accommodate authentication methods.
bug-trackerbugtrackerdecentralized-applicationdistributed-systemsgitdb
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