Mingu Kwon
Staff Engineer, Autonomy Software at Shield AI
Seoul, South Korea
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Top SchoolMingu Kwon is a Staff Engineer in autonomy software with a decade of hands-on experience building robotic manipulation and warehouse automation systems. He progressed from developing 6-DoF manipulation pilots and custom A*-based planners to leading teams that turned proofs-of-concept into production-grade systems focused on reliability and efficiency. His background spans embedded control, visual servoing, admittance control, perception with 3D depth cameras, and system integration, reflecting deep full-stack robotics expertise. Mingu has combined academic research and entrepreneurial roots—co-founding a sensor/mesh IoT project and designing custom in-motion weighing and vision-equipped conveyors—so he brings both product sensibility and experimental rigor. Based in Seoul, he now applies that breadth to autonomy software at Shield AI, where he continues to bridge low-level control and scalable system architecture.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) in Mechatronics Engineering Mechatronics Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) in Mechatronics Engineering Mechatronics Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, Korean, Chinese
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Github Skills (12)
collision-detection10
collision10
ros-driver10
robotics10
ros10
pathfinding9
machine-learning7
robot6
pddl6
parser4
planning4
python3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mgkwon/Universal_Robots_ROS_Driver
Jan 2020 - Aug 2022
Driver enabling ROS operation of UR robots.
Contributions:11 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 7 months
operationroboticsros2rosrobots
mgkwon/mingukwon.com
Dec 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:37 pushes, 6 branches in 5 months
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