Kai Nakamura
Software Engineer at SpaceX
United States
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Top SchoolKai Nakamura is a software engineer and Caltech computer science student with eight years of hands-on experience building systems across aerospace and consumer robotics. Currently at SpaceX after internships at Skydio and Meta, he blends research-backed NLP experience with product-focused engineering on real-world autonomous platforms. His background suggests strong capabilities in scalable, safety-critical software and rapid prototyping from lab to deployment. Based in the United States, he brings a mix of academic rigor and industry velocity, having moved between research internships and high-tempo engineering roles early in his career.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
California Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
plugin9
minecraft9
bukkit9
spigot9
eigen9
ipopt9
trajectory-optimization9
collocation8
robot8
midi-controller8
iota7
java7
computer-graphics7
midi7
ros7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
KaiNakamura/kainakamura.github.io
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:196 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 8 months
KaiNakamura/SpeedrunShowdown
Dec 2020 - Dec 2022
Minecraft Speedrunning and PvP Plugin
Contributions:5 releases, 139 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 11 months
minecraftbukkitpluginpvpspigot
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