Tetsuya Idota
Senior Software Engineer at Bonsai Robotics
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTetsuya Idota is a Senior Software Engineer based in California with nine years of robotics-focused software experience, currently building systems at Bonsai Robotics after contributing to Bear Robotics. He specializes in mobile robotics, probabilistic methods, and SLAM, with a Ph.D. background studying multi-robot exploration and information exchange to avoid estimator overconfidence in tunnel-like environments. His hands-on work spans real-time 3D mapping, Gazebo simulator plugin development for DARPA SubT scenarios, and ROS nodes for target localization and map smoothing. Tetsuya blends research rigor with production engineering, shipping mapping and autonomy features used in commercial and simulated underground robotics. He has a track record of turning advanced autonomous exploration algorithms into practical software components across startups and open-source platforms. Colleagues describe him as quietly experimental—comfortable pushing simulation boundaries while ensuring solutions integrate cleanly with robotic systems in the field.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computational Sciences and Robotics, Master of Science - MS Computational Sciences and Robotics at South Dakota MinesBachelor of Science (B.S.) in Engineering Information Systems Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Engineering Information Systems Science at Soka UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at University of Hawaii at Manoa
Japanese
Github Skills (20)
simulation9
ignition9
gazebo-simulator9
robotics-simulation9
marine8
robot-simulator8
robotics8
gazebosim8
documentation6
ros5
poppler4
beamer4
mupdf3
pdf3
pdf-generation3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tidota/quadrotor-tunnel-nav
Nov 2016 - May 2019
Contributions:365 commits, 162 pushes, 63 branches in 2 years 6 months
tidota/mav-tunnel-nav
May 2019 - Mar 2022
Contributions:244 pushes, 63 branches, 4 tags in 2 years 10 months
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