Yasasa Abeysirigoonawardena
Software Developer at Waabi
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolYasasa Abeysirigoonawardena is a software developer with a decade of experience building robotics and autonomous systems software, currently contributing to Waabi after completing an MS in Computer Science at the University of Toronto. Their background blends industry work at Unity and research roles in self-driving and mobile robotics at McGill and U of T, with hands-on experience in drone autonomy, computer vision, and verification of simulated vehicles. Comfortable across embedded systems and high-level research, they have shipped production code and developed adversarial scenario generation and verification tools for simulators. Based in Old Toronto, they combine academic rigor with pragmatic engineering—aiming to automate routine tasks (their GitHub quip: “I want to build a robot to replace me someday” hints at a continued focus on autonomy and tooling). Colleagues describe them as a practical problem-solver who bridges research prototypes and production-ready systems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of TorontoBachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical Engineering at McGill University
Github Skills (18)
px410
autopilot10
mavlink10
drones10
graphic10
ros10
qgroundcontrol9
placement7
ieee7
window-manager6
space-partitioning5
bash4
macos4
multiprocessing4
shell3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mcgill-robotics/tools.sh
Sep 2018 - Sep 2019
🛠️ Our shell tools
Contributions:5 PRs, 1 push, 4 branches in 11 months
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yasasa/adv-scenarios
Feb 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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