Takuma N
Senior Staff Autonomy Engineer at Wisk
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolTakuma N is a Senior Staff Autonomy Engineer in Seattle with a decade of experience building navigation, state estimation, and perception systems for autonomous aircraft. He blends academic rigor from a Georgia Tech Ph.D. with hands-on product experience at Prime Air and Wisk, specializing in sensor fusion, GNSS, computer vision, and 3-D geometry for real-world flight systems. A FAA-licensed private pilot and sUAS remote pilot, he uniquely couples piloting insight with algorithm development to deliver robust estimation and navigation solutions. He also contributes to open-source Python tooling, improving type safety in matplotlib—evidence of care for maintainable, high-quality code across research and production.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Tohoku University
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Github Skills (9)
data-visualizations10
typehinting10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
type-checking10
python10
plot10
matplotlib10
data-science8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
matplotlib/matplotlib
Oct 2023 - May 2024
matplotlib: plotting with Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 PR, 3 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Takuma's commits focus on type hinting and improving the type safety of the matplotlib library. They made several changes related to the `subplots` and `subplot` functions, including adding and modifying overloads to provide more accurate type information. Furthermore, the user removed type ignore directives, indicating an effort to enhance code quality. The work demonstrates an understanding of Python typing and how to integrate it with a complex library like matplotlib.
pythondata-sciencegtkdata-visualizationplotting
n-takumasa/sympy
Dec 2018 - Dec 2022
A computer algebra system written in pure Python
Contributions:23 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years
aplpythoncomputer-algebra-systemnumbasymbolic-math
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