Yadunund Vijay
Senior Staff Software Engineer at FieldAI
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYadunund Vijay is a Staff Software Engineer with nine years of experience applying robotics, automation, and AI to modernize manufacturing, currently based in Mountain View and leading software efforts at Intrinsic. He moved up internally from Senior to Staff Engineer after roles at Open Robotics and A*STAR, blending hands-on systems engineering with project-level leadership. A core contributor and Project Management Committee member for ROS 2 and Open-RMF, he also authors and maintains key ROS 2 documentation—work that underpins wide adoption of robotics middleware. Trained in advanced manufacturing at MIT and mechanical engineering at SUTD, he pairs academic rigor with practical factory-floor insight from internships at Applied Materials and simulation work. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex robotics stacks into production-ready solutions that accelerate automation deployment.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng) Advanced Manufacturing and Design, Master of Engineering (MEng) Advanced Manufacturing and Design at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Engineering (BE) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Mechanical Engineering at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
English
Github Skills (3)
documentation10
ros10
python5
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ros2/ros2_documentation
Mar 2023 - Feb 2026
ROS 2 docs repository
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:51 reviews, 20 PRs, 29 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Yadunund primarily contributed to the documentation of the ROS 2 project. Their work involved rephrasing existing documentation, fixing wildcard searches in launch files, and adding information regarding Windows binary installations, specifically related to zlib. They also updated release documentation by adding Iron EOL information, notes on blocking package releases, and other general release updates. Furthermore, they made minor corrections to the project's governance documents.
ros
open-rmf/fleet_adapter_template
Jun 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:7 reviews, 20 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year
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