Tomohide Bessho
Sr. Project Engineer at Union Pacific Railroad
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTomohide Bessho is a senior project engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building and maintaining web and enterprise applications, currently leading engineering efforts at Union Pacific Railroad. He pairs a strong academic foundation in mathematics and computer science with varied research experience—ranging from human-robot interaction and neural network optimization for autonomous vehicles to constraint propagation and simulation games—bringing rigorous problem-solving to production systems. His technical breadth spans Java, Angular, TypeScript/Vue, PHP/Laravel, C#, Python, ROS and Docker, with a track record of evolving MVC and assignment systems for large-scale operational use. Comfortable in agile teams and remote research environments, he has repeatedly translated academic research into working software and shipped reliable tools used across organizations. Notably, he won an Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award while also contributing to multiple research papers, reflecting both technical depth and clear communication skills.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Github Skills (19)
paths9
predict9
linear-regression8
robotics7
regression7
ros7
point-cloud6
updating3
minesweeper3
redux2
solver2
20482
propagation2
react2
constraint2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tzxb018/CS361-Group10-Grocery-App
Sep 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:69 PRs, 123 pushes, 9 branches in 2 months
tzxb018/laser_calibration_with_people_detection
Jun 2019 - Jun 2021
This ROS package combines multiple laser scans from RPLIDAR A3M1 lasers into a calibrated point cloud. This package will then track the ankles of moving people in the point cloud and predict their paths with linear regression.
Contributions:103 commits, 12 PRs, 77 pushes in 2 years
regressionroboticslaserros-packagelinear-regression
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