Ken Conley
Member Of Technical Staff at Physical Intelligence
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKen Conley is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years of experience building foundational robotics and embedded systems, now focused on technical staff-level engineering in Mountain View. He helped co-create ROS at Willow Garage and later led SW/HW co-design and vehicle middleware at Aurora, combining low-level systems work with cloud infrastructure and safety-critical design. At Google he shipped Motion Stills and led teams prototyping novel user-facing media technologies, demonstrating a knack for turning research prototypes into polished products. Active in open source, Ken has contributed deep backend improvements to rosjava and rosdep, including refactors, testing, topic/service discovery, and cross-platform installer work. He pairs meticulous engineering (he jokes his dog writes the code while he writes the tests) with a history of guiding early-stage platforms from prototype to production. Based in Mountain View, he brings rare cross-domain expertise spanning robotics, mobile multimedia, and production-grade distributed systems.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Em Ai Tea
Github Skills (13)
javas10
python10
package-management10
api-design10
ros10
java10
operating-system10
linux9
unit-testing9
yaml8
architecture8
multithreading8
architectures8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rosjava/rosjava_core
Feb 2011 - Jan 2012
An implementation of ROS in pure Java with Android support.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:186 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Ken primarily worked on the implementation of ROS in Java, focusing on core functionalities and low-level APIs. They refactored and enhanced the Time and Duration classes, adding unit tests and improving the fromMillis code. The user also added in the integration testing messages, and refactored the subscription and publisher APIs to align with new functionality. The user made significant changes to name resolution and topic management, including a rewrite of the internal Subscriber/Publisher implementations, and the addition of new features like service discovery.
androidjavaros
ros-infrastructure/rosdep
Sep 2011 - Apr 2012
rosdep multi-package manager system dependency tool
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Ken primarily focused on refactoring and improving the `InstallerContext` API, enhancing its cleanliness and maintainability. This involved moving source installer configurations and restructuring the API for better organization. Additionally, the user addressed issues with the codebase, implementing fixes and ensuring the project's stability. They also made changes to address platform-specific implementations for Debian and Gentoo Linux.
package-manager
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