Julius Hietala
Software Engineer at Junction
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJulius Hietala is a Machine Learning Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building applied ML and robotics systems, currently working on intelligent fulfillment robots at Nimble Robotics in San Francisco. He combines hands-on research experience—publishing work on dynamic cloth folding and implementing perception-to-control pipelines—with product engineering skills from roles at Smartly.io where he led migrations for a video rendering platform. A serial founder and operator, Julius co-founded Stray Robots (vision tooling) and hanaa.io (motorcycle marketplace), demonstrating both deep technical fluency in Python/C++/PyTorch/ROS and practical product instincts. His background spans academic rigor (MSc with honors in ML/AI from Aalto) to scaling real-world systems, and he often bridges simulation and real-world robotics in production contexts. An under-the-radar strength is his track record of moving research prototypes into deployed systems across startups and lab settings.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Machine Learning, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree, Machine Learning, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at Aalto UniversityPorkkalan LukioHigh School, High School at Montrose High School
Swedish, Finnish, English
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Github Skills (71)
python10
instance-segmentation10
deep-learning10
realsense10
tflite10
bgfx10
ros10
yolov510
robotics10
onnx10
object-detection10
computer-vision10
classification10
tensorrt10
lidar10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hietalajulius/dynamic-cloth-folding
Sep 2020 - Oct 2022
Code for our paper: Learning Visual Feedback Control for Dynamic Cloth Folding (IROS 2022)
Contributions:225 commits, 61 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
computer-visionfranka-emikagymmachine-learningpython
StrayRobots/stray
Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
Stray SDK
Contributions:8 releases, 1 review, 56 commits in 2 months
blockchainsdk
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