# Owen Leather

> Perception Software Engineer @ Kodiak

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/owenleather

## Work Experience
### Perception Software Engineer @ Kodiak
Jan 2025 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
Developing perception software for autonomous semi-trucks

### Perception Engineering Intern @ Kodiak
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Mountain View, California, United States
Worked on statistical filtering, deep neural networks, and ML infrastructure.

### Student Researcher @ University of Waterloo
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Co-author on "RALACs: Action Recognition in Autonomous Vehicles using Interaction Encoding and Optical Flow", IEEE Cybernetics 2024.

### Team Captain @ WATonomous
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Led a team of ~100 students to develop a full self-driving car from the ground up!

### Machine Learning Intern @ iMetalX, Inc.
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
Led development of novel software architecture for 3D surface reconstruction of space objects using Convolutional Neural Networks, Pose Graph Optimization, and Neural Radiance Fields techniques.

### Autonomy Software Intern @ Quantum Robotic Systems Inc.
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Built complete ROS2 infrastructure for mobile robot platform to allow for vision, navigation, and advanced controls.

### Software Development Intern @ iMetalX, Inc.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
Developed command and control capabilities, software-defined interoperable networking, and simulation tools for multiple unmanned systems using Kotlin and Python for a successful USAF demo.


## Education
### Bachelor of Mathematics in Computational and Applied Mathematics
University of Waterloo

### Mission College

### Archbishop Mitty High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/owenleather
- Website: https://oleather.github.io
- Website: https://github.com/OLeather

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Last updated: 2026-04-05