William Tokumaru

Staff Engineering Manager at Symbio Robotics
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Credentials

  • EH&S Safety Training
    EH&S
  • Liquid Nitrogen Training
    UC Berkeley
  • Machine Shop Training
    UC Berkeley

Experience

    • United States
    • Automation Machinery Manufacturing
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Staff Engineering Manager
      • Dec 2020 - Present

      Managed the Framework Team, focused on integrating with production systems and building out scalable robotics architecture.Managed 3/6 tech leads, whose projects generated millions in revenue.Defined and and maintained the company’s product roadmap with sales and marketing.Extended the product from a force control platform to one capable of vision-based line tracking.

    • Principal Engineer
      • Jul 2018 - Dec 2020

      Project lead for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wOsjsAIeNUIt has run in production continuously since September 2020 and helped manufacture several 100,000s of cars, with no need for support past the initial deployment.Built a hardware-agnostic Robot API to support UR, ABB, FANUC, KUKA, Yaskawa, and Meca arms.Used Gaussian Process Regressor model-based Bayesian Optimization to minimize cycle time.

    • Software Engineer
      • Jun 2016 - Jul 2018

      One of the first hires and primary developers through a $12M Series A and an $80M series B.Implemented Guided Policy Search to teach robots how to mesh gears and insert pegs.Built a real robot control stack with ROS1 for ABB and Universal Robots arms.

    • United States
    • Research Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Research Assistant
      • Jan 2016 - Jun 2016

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Physics UGSI
      • Jun 2014 - Jun 2016

      Fall 2015: UGSI for Physics 111A: Basic Semiconductor Circuits Instrumentation and Electronics Lab Springhttp://instrumentationlab.berkeley.edu/Spring 2016: UGSI for Physics 111B: Modern Physics Laboratoryhttp://experimentationlab.berkeley.edu/Created both positions by convincing the department to have an undergraduate teach these labs for the first time.

    • Undergraduate Researcher
      • Sep 2013 - Jun 2016

  • Cal Dining
    • Cal Dining, Foothill
    • Crew Lead
      • Sep 2012 - Jun 2016

    • President
      • Jun 2013 - Jun 2015

    • Note-Taker
      • Aug 2013 - Dec 2013

    • Undergraduate Researcher
      • Jun 2013 - Jun 2013

  • Self-Employed
    • UC Berkeley
    • Real Estate Broker
      • Jan 2013 - Jun 2013

      Helped over 30 students find affordable off-campus housing and personally organized deals for 10 of them, in two separate groups, with separate real estate agencies. Helped over 30 students find affordable off-campus housing and personally organized deals for 10 of them, in two separate groups, with separate real estate agencies.

Education

  • UC Berkeley
    Bachelor's degree, Physics
    2012 - 2015
  • Thousand Oaks High School
    2008 - 2012
  • Moorpark College
    2011 - 2011

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