Kazuya Otani
Staff Software Engineer at Waymo
San Diego Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolKazuya Otani is a senior software engineer and planner with a decade of experience building motion planning and control systems for autonomous vehicles and aerial robots. Currently at Waymo, he designs and implements trajectory planning and planner infrastructure, drawing on prior senior autonomy work at Shield AI where he led controls, map interfaces, and testing for exploration quadrotors. Trained in Robotic Systems Development at Carnegie Mellon and with hands-on research and industry internships across humanoid and bioinspired robotics, he blends rigorous academic grounding with practical prototyping and systems engineering. As a former scrum master and multi-disciplinary engineer, he uniquely bridges controls, mechanical integration, and software delivery to ship robust autonomy features.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoLynbrook High SchoolMaster's degree Robotic Systems Development, Master's degree Robotic Systems Development at Carnegie Mellon University
Japanese, Spanish, French
Github Skills (21)
robot10
fabrication10
visual-odometry10
slam10
robotics9
algorithm9
cpp9
computer-vision9
bayesian8
drones8
gaussian-processes7
drake5
ddpg4
deep-learning3
reinforcement-learning3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kazuotani14/kazuotani14.github.io
Nov 2017 - Jun 2026
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 8 months
mrsd16teamd/iLQR_onboard
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:31 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
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