Yutaka Kondo
California, United States
Summary
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RockstarYutaka 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
Github Skills (12)
automation10
bash10
docker10
automations10
dockers10
cicd10
ansible9
ros9
ansible-galaxy9
github-ci8
githubaction-workflow8
git7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
autowarefoundation/autoware
Aug 2015 - Jul 2026
Autoware - the world's leading open-source software project for autonomous driving
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:3 releases, 235 reviews, 553 PRs in 11 years
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.
autonomous-drivingautowareautonomous-vehiclesrosros2
autowarefoundation/autoware_cmake
Apr 2024 - Nov 2025
CMake packages for working with Autoware
Contributions:5 reviews, 14 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 6 months
cmake
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