Yutaka Kondo
Principal Software Engineer, TIER IV North America
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYutaka Kondo, Ph.D. is a Principal Software Engineer and engineering leader based in California with 12 years of experience building robotics and autonomous driving software. Currently driving The Autoware Foundation’s global activities from TIER IV North America, he leads cross-disciplinary efforts spanning Autoware, end-to-end AI, middleware, simulation, and AI accelerators while managing large engineering organizations. He combines hands-on DevOps and automation expertise—demonstrated by meaningful contributions to the flagship autoware open-source project improving Docker build and deployment workflows—with academic rigor from a Ph.D. in Information Science. His background includes leading product and project teams in commercial robotics, authoring a widely read ROS 2 book, and steering joint industry developments that bridge research and production. Comfortable toggling between code, systems engineering, and program leadership, he focuses on reproducible builds and reliable CI/CD to accelerate real-vehicle validation. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technologist who translates complex robotics research into production-ready software and developer-friendly tooling.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Information Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Information Science at Nara Institute of Science and TechnologyBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Technology at Toyohashi University of Technology
Japanese, English
Github Skills (12)
automation10
bash10
docker10
automations10
dockers10
cicd10
ansible9
ros9
ansible-galaxy9
github-ci8
githubaction-workflow8
git7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
autowarefoundation/autoware
Aug 2015 - Apr 2025
Autoware - the world's leading open-source software project for autonomous driving
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:2 releases, 165 reviews, 456 PRs in 9 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Yutaka primarily focused on improving the Autoware project's build and deployment processes. Their contributions involved automating and streamlining Docker-related tasks, including image building, artifact downloads, and environment setup. They refactored existing scripts to enhance efficiency and maintainability, introducing new scripts for cleaning up the system and resolving dependencies, and also fixed several docker-related issues. These changes likely aimed to improve the developer experience and ensure consistent builds and deployments.
roboticsautonomousautowareros2ros
ros2-gbp/autoware_internal_msgs-release
May 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:250 pushes, 117 branches in 7 months
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