Top Software Engineers in

Autonomous Robotics and Computer Vision Development

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Autonomous robotics and computer vision development focuses on creating technologies for self-operating machines that can perceive and interpret their surroundings using visual data. This field utilizes advanced algorithms and machine learning to enable applications such as self-driving cars, drone navigation, and robotic vision, relying heavily on image processing, 3D modeling, and simulation technologies.

Ranks are based on the open source contributions and reassessed every 30 days

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1

Alexander Aksyonov
DevOps Engineer at YADRO
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Russian Federation
Rock Star
11 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
opencv/opencv
40 releases, 2792 reviews, 8086 commits in 9 years 7 months
opencv/opencv_contrib
434 reviews, 1215 commits, 777 PRs in 8 years 8 months
alalek/opencv
476 commits, 3811 pushes, 2135 branches in 9 years 7 months
Top skills
Score
openvino
10
annotations
10
recommendation-system
10

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2

Andrew Tridgell
Systems Lead at ArduPilot
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Australia
Rock Star
28 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
tridge/ardupilot
16359 commits, 29 PRs, 5723 pushes in 10 years 2 months
ArduPilot/ardupilot
6 releases, 6641 reviews, 15188 commits in 11 years 6 months
zentyal/samba
10749 commits in 16 years 8 months
Top skills
Score
plane
10
mac-os
10
mavlink
10

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3

Peter Barker
Programmer and Systems Analyst at e0
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Australia
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
ArduPilot/ardupilot
4044 reviews, 8695 commits, 8366 PRs in 7 years 8 months
Silvanosky/ardupilot_test
676 commits in 1 year 6 months
xianglunkai/ardupilot
660 commits, 2 pushes in 3 years 10 months
Top skills
Score
plane
10
android
10
endpoints
10

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4

Randy Mackay
ArduPilot UAV software developer at Ardupilot
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Japan
Rock Star
13 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
ArduPilot/ardupilot
49 releases, 3449 reviews, 6389 commits in 11 years 6 months
ArduPilot/ardupilot_wiki
364 reviews, 1609 commits, 709 PRs in 6 years 10 months
rmackay9/rmackay9-ardupilot
4525 commits, 19 PRs, 7954 pushes in 9 years 11 months
Top skills
Score
plane
10
studio
10
automation
10

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5

Vadim Pisarevsky
/
Russian Federation
Rock Star
12 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
opencv/opencv
436 reviews, 2212 commits, 518 PRs in 9 years 9 months
cbachhuber/opencv-wiki
286 commits in 3 years 10 months
vpisarev/ficus
30 reviews, 561 commits, 10 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Top skills
Score
python
10
deep-learning
10
interpreter
10

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6

Lorenz Meier
CEO Auterion - Creator of Pixhawk and Founder of PX4 - MIT'35 at Px4
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United States
Rock Star
14 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
PX4/PX4-Autopilot
81 releases, 359 reviews, 9194 commits in 9 years 2 months
mavlink/qgroundcontrol
11 releases, 35 reviews, 1522 commits in 8 years 9 months
mavlink/mavlink
22 reviews, 633 commits, 322 PRs in 11 years 1 month
Top skills
Score
ios
10
android
10
nuttx
10

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7

Daniel Agar
Software Developer at Px4
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United States
Rock Star
13 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
PX4/Firmware-Doxygen
2 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
PX4/PX4-Autopilot
24 releases, 3092 reviews, 5524 commits in 8 years 2 months
jn89b/afrl_px4
3176 commits in 5 years 9 months
Top skills
Score
plane
10
mac-os
10
aerospace
10

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8

Ilya Lavrenov
AI Frameworks Architect at Intel Corporation
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Russian Federation
Rock Star
12 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
openvinotoolkit/openvino
1 release, 7433 reviews, 724 commits in 2 years 8 months
opencv/opencv
25 reviews, 935 commits, 93 PRs in 9 years 2 months
ilya-lavrenov/openvino
1 release, 20 reviews, 126 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Top skills
Score
pruning
10
camera-api
10
typescript
10

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9

Maksim Shabunin
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Russian Federation
Rock Star
10 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
opencv/opencv
4 releases, 488 reviews, 879 commits in 8 years 6 months
opencv/opencv_contrib
17 reviews, 149 commits, 97 PRs in 8 years 3 months
mshabunin/opencv
70 commits, 1 PR, 1519 pushes in 8 years 3 months
Top skills
Score
openvino
10
re-identification
10
stability
10

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10

Alexander Smorkalov
Principal Engineer – Xperience AI at Itseez
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Cyprus
Rock Star
12 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
opencv/opencv
6 releases, 2232 reviews, 834 commits in 10 years 7 months
asmorkalov/opencv
81 commits, 19 PRs, 515 pushes in 10 years 5 months
GreenWaves-Technologies/FaceReID
116 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
Top skills
Score
abstract-syntax-tree
10
c-plus-plus
10
opencv
10

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11

Beat Küng
Senior Software Engineer at Auterion
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Switzerland
Rock Star
14 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
PX4/PX4-Autopilot
1141 reviews, 2685 commits, 1616 PRs in 6 years 10 months
PX4/PX4-Devguide
3 reviews, 138 commits, 144 PRs in 4 years 3 months
PX4/flight_review
58 reviews, 390 commits, 169 PRs in 6 years 3 months
Top skills
Score
csv
10
visualization
10
deeplearning
10

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12

Liangliang Z
Autonomous Driving, Deep Learning, Robotics at Zelos
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United States
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
ApolloAuto/apollo
4264 commits, 1445 PRs, 755 pushes in 1 year 7 months
HuangCongQing/apollo_note
1021 commits in 1 year
lgsvl/apollo-3.0
619 commits in 10 months
Top skills
Score
autonomous-driving
10
autonomous-vehicles
10
autonomy
10

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13

Peter Hall
/
United Kingdom
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
IamPete1/ardupilot
2403 commits, 15 PRs, 3326 pushes in 4 years 10 months
ArduPilot/ardupilot
2658 reviews, 1534 commits, 963 PRs in 4 years 10 months
ArduPilot/ardupilot_wiki
69 reviews, 30 commits, 29 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Top skills
Score
studio
10
lora
10
robotics
10

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14

Lucas De Marchi
Graphics Software Engineer at Intel Corporation
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United States
Rock Star
24 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
lucasdemarchi/ardupilot
1567 commits, 531 pushes, 434 branches in 7 years 7 months
ArduPilot/ardupilot
47 reviews, 1328 commits, 828 PRs in 7 years 5 months
intel/mainline-tracking
423 commits in 3 years 5 months
Top skills
Score
plane
10
fedora
10
btrfs
10

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15

Julian Oes
Drone Software Consultant at Self Employed
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New Zealand
Rock Star
11 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
mavlink/MAVSDK
132 releases, 639 reviews, 3359 commits in 6 years 5 months
mavlink/MAVSDK-docs
62 reviews, 154 commits, 125 PRs in 5 years 5 months
PX4/PX4-Autopilot
2 releases, 530 reviews, 2188 commits in 10 years 2 months
Top skills
Score
plane
10
simulation
10
gpx
10

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16

Andy Piper
Vice President Of Engineering at Diffblue
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United Kingdom
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
ArduPilot/ardupilot
1876 reviews, 1241 commits, 601 PRs in 7 years 7 months
andyp1per/ardupilot
23 reviews, 1080 commits, 24 PRs in 3 years 9 months
ArduPilot/ardupilot_wiki
137 reviews, 19 commits, 19 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Top skills
Score
plane
10
api
10
android-application
10

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17

Siddharth Purohit
Embedded Software for Autonomous Systems at Ardupilot
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Australia
Rock Star
11 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
bugobliterator/ardupilot
1 release, 2218 commits, 13 PRs in 7 years 11 months
ArduPilot/ardupilot
391 reviews, 1154 commits, 337 PRs in 7 years 11 months
tridge/ardupilot
759 commits, 4 PRs, 15 pushes in 8 years 9 months
Top skills
Score
plane
10
aerospace
10
station
10

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18

Leonard Hall
Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer at Freespace Operations
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Australia
Rock Star
14 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
ArduPilot/ardupilot
579 reviews, 1140 commits, 168 PRs in 10 years 4 months
rmackay9/rmackay9-ardupilot
454 commits, 5 pushes in 8 years 11 months
ammojamo/Judo-Event-Manager
299 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 7 years 2 months
Top skills
Score
plane
10
apm
10
drones
10

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Xiangquan Xiao
exGoogle, exBaidu, exXpeng at Xpeng Inc.
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United States
Rock Star
13 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
ApolloAuto/apollo
1 release, 44 reviews, 2983 commits in 3 years 4 months
HuangCongQing/apollo_note
512 commits in 11 months
xiaoxq/apollo
1 release, 1843 pushes, 71 branches in 5 years 7 months
Top skills
Score
scalable
10
google-kubernetes-engine
10
kubernetes
10

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20

Tom Pittenger
Senior Robotics Engineer at Kraus Hamdani Aerospace, Inc.
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United States
Rock Star
11 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
magicrub/ardupilot
1299 commits, 2 PRs, 1003 pushes in 7 years 11 months
ArduPilot/ardupilot
1018 reviews, 1068 commits, 1262 PRs in 7 years 9 months
mavlink/mavlink
1 review, 18 commits, 29 PRs in 7 years
Top skills
Score
plane
10
chibios
10
autopilot
10

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