Makoto Kurihara
Autonomous Driving Software Engineer at Tier IV
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolMakoto Kurihara is an autonomous driving software engineer with nine years of experience building vehicle control and transmission systems, currently advancing motion planning and control at Tier IV. He combines a strong academic foundation from the University of Tokyo with hands-on expertise in C++, ROS, Python, MATLAB, and machine learning to translate estimated vehicle state and environment perception into robust control behaviors. At Honda Research Institute he shipped transmission software that reduced fuel consumption and suppressed vibration, and at Tier IV he has contributed notable fixes and integrations to the widely used Autoware.Universe project, improving motion velocity smoothing and minimal risk maneuvers. Comfortable across embedded and back-end domains, he also explores Rust and planning algorithms, bringing a pragmatic blend of research-driven thinking and production-grade engineering.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of Tokyo
Github Skills (12)
parameterization10
c-language10
planning10
missionplanner10
cprogramming-language10
motion-planning10
ros10
autonomous-driving10
interpolation8
api-design8
sys7
embedded7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
autowarefoundation/autoware_universe
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Embedded Systems Engineer
Back-end Developer & Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:81 reviews, 13 commits, 34 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Makoto contributed significantly to the Autoware.Universe project, primarily focusing on the motion planning and control aspects of autonomous driving. Their commits involved refactoring and initializing parameters within the motion velocity smoother, addressing velocity limits, and integrating the system with MRM (Minimal Risk Maneuver) behaviors. They also worked on spline interpolation and made adjustments to the pose initializer to improve API responses. The user's work encompassed a range of functionalities critical for the safe and reliable operation of autonomous vehicles.
autowareros23d-mapcalibrationros
mkuri/dotfiles
Feb 2021 - Feb 2025
Manage application config files
Contributions:90 PRs, 80 pushes, 94 branches in 4 years
configstowdotfilesapplication-configconfig-files
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