Summary
Koji Gardiner is a hands-on software engineer and engineering leader with eight years of experience building high-performance embedded sensing and camera systems across consumer electronics, automotive, and professional cinema. He has led teams and shipped multi-generation camera hardware—from iPhone modules to a 24‑sensor stereoscopic VR rig and custom autonomous-vehicle camera suites deployed in hundreds of vehicles. His expertise spans camera design, image processing pipelines, embedded software, and design for manufacturability, and he pairs deep hardware know-how with practical Python tooling and test‑station automation to close the loop between sensors and perception software. At startups and at Apple and Argo AI he has owned cross-disciplinary programs that required optics, firmware, manufacturing, and supply‑chain coordination. Less obvious: he volunteers product- and manufacturability-driven engineering for low-resource education hardware, showing a pattern of shipping robust systems that scale from boutique cinema use to global deployments.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Continuing Education Computer Science, Continuing Education Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
M.S. Electrical Engineering, M.S. Electrical Engineering at Stanford University