Ussama Naal
Sr .Staff Software Engineer at Ouster
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolUssama Naal is a senior staff software engineer with over 15 years of experience building robotics, simulation, and computer graphics systems, currently advancing lidar software at Ouster in the San Francisco Bay Area. He blends deep expertise in C++ and Python with applied machine learning, computer vision, and cloud technologies to deliver production-grade solutions for autonomous vehicles and robotics. His background spans research-driven roles at NASA Ames’ Intelligent Robotics Group to leadership positions in industry, giving him a strong mix of hands-on implementation and systems-level design. Ussama contributes to open-source tooling around lidar—improving ROS driver documentation and migration guidance—to make complex sensor stacks more accessible to developers. He holds an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and brings a track record of turning simulation and VR/AR prototypes into usable, well-documented engineering artifacts.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Software Engineering and Information Systems, B.S. Software Engineering and Information Systems at Aleppo UniversityM.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Oklahoma
Arabic, English, French, Japanese
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Github Skills (3)
lidar10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ouster-lidar/ouster-ros
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Official ROS drivers for Ouster sensors (OS0, OS1, OS2, OSDome)
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:5 releases, 120 reviews, 81 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ussama primarily contributed to the project by creating and updating documentation. They added a `LICENSE` and `CHANGELOG.rst` file, moved ROS documentation into the repository, and updated existing documentation to reflect project changes, including the splitting of the `ouster-ros` repository and migration guidelines. These changes focused on improving user understanding and usability of the driver.
driverssensorsros2ros-driverspcl
Samahu/robotics-dynamic-terrain
Mar 2020 - Feb 2021
A demo that shows visual and physical responses when the terrain is updated with ROS/Gazebo environment
Contributions:43 commits, 7 PRs, 36 pushes in 11 months
gazeboignitionroboticsros2webots
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