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Hello, my name is Ibrahim Essam, a software engineer with experience working in the automotive and robotics industries. I am skilled in ROS, C++, Python, and computer vision.

Experience

Level II Software Integration Engineer @ Kudan

11/2021 - Ongoing   Bristol/UK

• Contributed and maintained ROS/ROS2 packages for Kudan’s SLAM Libraries.
• Architected and developed the robust backend of KudanStudio application using the Flask framework, enabling seamless data processing and real-time updates for users.
• Developed Python bindings for Kudan’s C++ Libraries, simplifying integration and allowing a broader range of developers to access our powerful libraries.
• Developed a Python application to manage KudanStudio deployment to the end users by providing easy to use GUI app made using TKinter framework.
• Packaged Kudan’s applications into Debian packages, making them accessible to a wider audience and simplifying installation for users.
• Collaborated with the DevOps team to optimize and automate ROS CI processes, resulting in shorter build times and more reliable testing.
• Developed Kudan’s Autonomous Mobile Robotics (AMR) package, including example launch files, to accelerate robotic development and improve navigation capabilities.
• Prepared Robotics demos for conventions like ROSCon and customers.
• Performed ongoing evaluations of SLAM algorithms against diverse customer datasets, leading to algorithm enhancements and ensuring better compatibility with real-world scenarios.
• Provided expert support to customers, guiding them in seamless integration of ROS packages and fine-tuning SLAM parameters, resulting in improved system performance.

SLAM, C++, ROS, Python, WebSockets, Docker

R&D Software Engineer @ Avelabs

09/2018 - 11/2021   Cairo/Egypt

Autohears

Contributed to the development of Avelab’s new Acoustic sensing product (AutoHears) by optimizing and porting existing algorithms to C/C++ for deployment on embedded hardware.

• Optimized existing Beamforming and DOA algorithms by offloading the slow mathematics computations to TI DSPs.
• Created benchmarks for the new developed algorithms.
• Created ROS packages for the product.
• Collected datasets to validate our algorithms against it.

Yonohub

Developer Advocate For Yonohub.com (A cloud-based system for Autonomous Vehicles, ADAS, and Robotics).

• Created tech content for publication as articles, tutorials, and showcase apps to effectively demonstrate use cases of Yonohub.
• Developed new Blocks from the state of the art ML/DL and ADAS Algorithms.
• Configured Hardware for Local Deployment (Nvidia Jetson AGX Xavier, Raspberry Pi).
• Created AVS Datasets for Yonohub, e.g. KITTI, DeepDrive, ApolloScape and Comma.ai

Autonomous Vehicles, ROS, Autoware, ML/DL, Cloud, Embedded Boards

Motion Planning and Control Engineer @ AeroVect

11/2020 - 11/2021   Remotely

• Developed and implemented the motion planning and control software stack for The AeroVect Driver.
• Designed and developed safety and emergency stopping algorithms for The AeroVect Driver to ensure safe operation in all scenarios.
• Designed and executed simulations for testing and verification of The AeroVect Driver, ensuring accuracy,robustness and reliabilit of the system.
• Integrating ROS with the other software components.

ROS, C++, Control Theory, Autonomous Driving

Bachelor Thesis and Internship @ Mercedes-Benz R&D

02/2017 - 08/2017   Sindelfingen/Germany

• Devleoping a Test Robot for Touch Devices Testing.
• Hardware (Robot Construction,Kinematics and Touch Devices)
• Software (CANoe,CAN-bus,Databases and The Test System)
• Making Tests on The Touch Devices with the Robot to analyze the state and develop improvements.
• Implementing new Algorithms and Data structures for the Robot in MATLAB.
• Programming a Graphical User Interface for the System

Delta Robots, MATLAB, CANoe.

Projects

• binance-dca. Python app to setup DCA orders on Binance.
• Edrak. C++ Library for Visual SLAM.
• Pure pursuit ROS package for path tracking.
• C++ Implementation of a BlockChain.
• ngrok-ros. ROS package for ngrok.
• ros2-android, ROS2 package to use android’s phone sensors.
• ROSbag2Videos, Extract videos from ROS bags.
• Teaching an online ROS2 course on Youtube.
• pclutils a C++ library for working with PointClouds.
• BaristaBot a robotics simulation package based on ROS and Gazebo.
• CarSim SFML and ROS based Car Simulator.
• Concurrent Traffic Simulation.
• Linux System Monitor C++.
• Route Planning Project using A* C++.
• Unscented Kalman Filter to estimate the state of multiple cars.
• Particles Filter C++ Implementation.
• Time To Collision System (TTC) based on Lidar and Camera.
• PointClouds Obstacles Detection, Segmentation and Clustering
• Jupyter-ROS (Contributor) ROS Support for jupyter notebooks
• Longitudinal and Lateral Control in CARLA Simulator   Video
• Deep Reinforcement Learning DQN Agent Playing Space Invaders   Video
• Road Semantic Segmentation Using Fully Convolutional Network (FCN)
• Building and Simulating TurtleBot using ROS and Raspberry Pi
• PID Control of Two-Wheeled Self balancing Robot .
• Yu-Gi-Oh Video Game in Java   Video