Tiago Silva
Software Engineer - Platform (Project Ace)
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolTiago Silva is a software engineer based in Tokyo with 10 years of experience building robotics and AI-driven systems, currently contributing to Sony AI’s Project Ace — an autonomous table tennis robot featured on the cover of Nature. He specializes in turning research prototypes into maintainable software, improving CI/CD and reinforcement learning frameworks, and designing tools that speed collaboration between engineering and research teams. Previously he advanced autonomous navigation at Rapyuta Robotics and built navigation and RL experiment frameworks in academic R&D, earning recognition for impactful contributions. A strong advocate for clean, well-documented code, he blends practical software engineering discipline with hands-on robotics research to deliver production-ready systems.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Informatics and Computing Engineering, Master's degree, Informatics and Computing Engineering at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Portuguese, English, Japanese
Github Skills (190)
python10
toolbox10
ros10
robotics10
flex10
torrent10
audio10
ffmpeg10
reinforcement-learning10
tailwindcss10
bittorrent10
asus10
robot10
trajectory-optimization10
navigationstack10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
siferati/teb_local_planner
Oct 2021 - Feb 2023
An optimal trajectory planner considering distinctive topologies for mobile robots based on Timed-Elastic-Bands (ROS Package)
Contributions:1 review, 6 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 4 months
mobileros
siferati/MidiWars
Aug 2018 - Apr 2021
Contributions:1 push, 5 comments, 3 issues in 2 years 8 months
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