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 (23)
midi-controller10
minecraft9
ipopt9
midi9
robot9
collocation8
motion-planning8
eigen8
trajectory-optimization8
computer-graphics7
bluetooth7
ros7
esp327
django6
nonlinear-programming6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
EAMIRorg/Squidbox
Mar 2024 - Jul 2025
A low-cost Bluetooth MIDI controller designed for teaching scales and chords
Contributions:34 PRs, 83 pushes, 34 branches in 1 year 4 months
bluetoothmidi-controlleresp32midimidi-device
KaiNakamura/SpeedrunShowdown
Dec 2020 - Dec 2022
Minecraft Speedrunning and PvP Plugin
Contributions:5 releases, 139 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 11 months
minecraft
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