William Tokumaru
Autonomy Software Engineer at AeroVironment
Hayward, California, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Tokumaru is an autonomy software engineer with 12 years of experience designing and shipping robotics and automation systems, currently at AeroVironment. He blends hands-on Python development, model-based optimization, and ROS-based control stacks to build hardware-agnostic Robot APIs that run reliably in production at scale. As a former Staff Engineering Manager and Head of Software, he has led cross-functional teams, defined product roadmaps, and delivered projects that generated millions in revenue and enabled continuous, maintenance-free deployments in automotive manufacturing. He enjoys applying academic techniques—like Gaussian Process Bayesian optimization and Guided Policy Search—to real-world problems and facilitating team collaboration through whiteboarding and clear communication. Based in Hayward, CA, he has a physics background from UC Berkeley and a track record of translating research methods into robust industrial automation.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Physics, Bachelor's degree Physics at University of California, BerkeleyMoorpark CollegeThousand Oaks High SchoolProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
HaeffnerLab/trap-sim-tools-python
Jun 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:48 commits in 1 month
Tokumaru/world_svg
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:35 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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