Kyle Krafka
Staff Software Engineer at Wing
Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolKyle Krafka is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience applying computer vision and machine learning to real-world systems, currently managing the perception and navigation stack for Wing’s delivery drones. He brings deep research roots—PhD work on visual attention and a Google Street View internship where he built a multithreaded, production-ready pipeline—to high-stakes safety and reliability engineering. Comfortable across C++, distributed systems, and backend tooling, he has repeatedly shipped robust vision features at scale and improved output formats in open-source tooling like a Google Location History converter. Based in Georgia, he pairs academic rigor with pragmatic product focus, turning complex perception research into dependable operational software for autonomous flight.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of Georgia
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
kml10
json10
data-conversion10
python10
gpx10
convert9
geolocation9
file-format9
file-conversion9
xml9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Scarygami/location-history-json-converter
Apr 2013 - Jul 2013
Convert the Location History JSON File from Google Takeout into a useable format
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily contributed to the development of a Google Location History JSON converter. Their work focused on enhancing the output formats supported by the converter. This involved adding support for GPX and improving KML output, including handling different versions and incorporating extended data. The user also addressed issues like invalid KML output and ensured the GPX output was valid.
json-filegoogle-takeouttakeoutgpxlocation
kjkjava/Sketchy.js
Mar 2013 - Feb 2017
Contributions:55 commits, 1 push in 3 years 11 months
rustmatchingshape-matching
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