Niels Joubert
Director Of Software Engineering - Remote Assist at Stack AV
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNiels Joubert is a director-level software engineering leader with 16 years of experience building remote-assist systems for self-driving vehicles, currently leading the Remote Assist team at Stack AV. He moved a teleassist prototype into production-scale service at Aurora and Uber, reducing in-vehicle interventions and scaling cross-functional teams of engineers, designers, product, and safety specialists. With a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford and a strong Berkeley EECS foundation, he blends rigorous research with hands-on systems engineering across autonomy, embedded, and GNSS domains. His open-source contributions include meaningful enhancements to MAVProxy—improving GPS/RTCM handling, gimbal control, and even adding speech output—illustrating a practical IoT and embedded systems pedigree. Colleagues describe him as a builder of collaborative, diverse teams who pairs technical vision with operational delivery. He routinely bridges academic research and product execution, turning complex sensing and navigation concepts into reliable vehicle services.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyPh.D Computer Science, Ph.D Computer Science at Stanford University
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Github Skills (17)
python10
mavlink10
gps10
proxy10
sys10
embedded10
iot9
macos8
cuda6
scheme6
functional-programming6
fingerprinting6
visual-studio6
compiler-construction6
opencv6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ArduPilot/MAVProxy
Jul 2014 - Jul 2017
MAVLink proxy and command line ground station
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 10 PRs, 31 comments in 3 years
Contributions summary:Niels focused on enhancing the MAVProxy software, primarily targeting improvements related to GPS functionality and gimbal control. Their contributions involved fixing issues with GPS data injection using both legacy and the new GPS_RTCM_DATA message for RTCM data and integrating features like ROIVEL control. Furthermore, the user added speech output functionalities and commands through backend integrations using macOS say, showcasing a diverse contribution profile within the MAVProxy project.
ground-stationpythonproxymavlink-proxystation
njoubert/FamilyTree
May 2018 - Mar 2023
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
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