Kenji Brameld
Software Engineer at ROS Sports
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKenji Brameld is a software engineer with a decade of experience specializing in ROS/ROS2, robotics simulation, and perception software, currently working on NASA SBIR projects in Houston. He maintains and improves key open-source robotics packages (notably vision_opencv and Webots ROS2 integrations) and has modernized ROS2 documentation to ease adoption. As a contracted lead ROS2 architect he rapidly delivered production-grade autonomy features—3D visualization, simulation, localization and CI—for an energy-sector autonomous vehicle. A former RoboCup team leader with a First Class Honours in Mechatronics from UNSW, he brings hands-on mechatronics experience and multi-agent research into practical systems. Equally comfortable fixing NaN edge-cases in cv_bridge as refactoring launch logic for different ROS distributions, he blends meticulous engineering with a passion for cross-cultural open-source collaboration between Australia, Japan and the US.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School Certificate, High School Certificate at St Luke's Grammar SchoolUNSW Sydney
Github Skills (19)
webots10
opencv10
maintenance10
c-language10
robotics10
python10
image-processing10
rest10
code-cleanup10
cprogramming-language10
ros10
documentation10
simulation9
simulations9
navigationview7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ros-perception/vision_opencv
Jul 2022 - Nov 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Maintainer
Back-end Developer & MaintainerContributions:30 reviews, 119 commits, 88 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Kenji primarily contributed to the maintenance and improvement of the `ros-perception/vision_opencv` repository. Their work focused on updating maintainer information, fixing encoding issues within the cv_bridge library, and adding deprecated header files with relevant warnings. The user also addressed issues related to dynamic scaling and ensured that the system handled edge cases such as infinite or Not a Number (NaN) values.
ros2/ros2_documentation
Jun 2021 - Jul 2022
ROS 2 docs repository
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:8 reviews, 6 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Kenji primarily contributed to the repository by updating and expanding the documentation. They clarified instructions for maintaining source code, added notes on important considerations for specific installations, such as OpenSSL and callback group references, and corrected code examples. Additionally, they ported over existing documentation from wiki.ros.org, modernizing it for ROS 2.
roboticsros-2rosros2
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