Tobias Kunz
Staff Software Engineer at Waymo
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTobias Kunz is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 15 years of experience building motion planning systems for self-driving cars, currently leading planning efforts at Waymo. He holds advanced degrees in robotics and computer science and brings deep research-to-production expertise, having worked on trajectory optimization for robots at Willow Garage and long-term motion planning at Google and Waymo. Tobias pairs systems-level engineering with low-level debugging skills—evident from contributions to the widely used DART robotics toolkit where he fixed cross-platform compilation issues and collision library inconsistencies. He has a strong background in C++ and robotics middleware, and earlier in his career developed enterprise software with Microsoft Dynamics customizations. Known for navigating complex dependencies and shipping reliable planners in safety-critical domains, he combines academic rigor with hands-on pragmatism.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyDiplom (≈BS+MS), Computer Science, Diplom (≈BS+MS), Computer Science at University of Stuttgart
English, German
Github Skills (5)
windows10
collision-detection10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
cmake9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dartsim/dart
Aug 2012 - Dec 2014
DART: Dynamic Animation and Robotics Toolkit
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:286 commits, 1 push, 3 comments in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Tobias primarily focused on addressing compilation errors and modifying the include order within the code base. Their contributions involved fixing compilation issues on Windows, which included changes to the code. The user also made modifications to the thirdparty/fcl library files and addressed inconsistencies. The user also removed and updated collision related headers, including setting up collision and its related dependencies.
kinematicsroboticsanimationcomputer-animationsimulation
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