Hey — I'm Mostafa

Robotics Field Engineer @ Wayve · Tokyo

Physical AI, real roads, and the messy bit between "it works in the garage" and "it's safe outside."

If you found me through a PR, an issue, or a random commit — welcome. I'm not trying to sound like a press release; I just like things that work in the real world and paper over fewer surprises when software meets metal.

Most of my energy goes into getting autonomous vehicles from "built" to "trustworthy on the road" — bring-up, calibration, checking that releases behave the way we think they do, and chasing the weird edge cases (signals, sensors, timing, the stuff that only shows up when you're not in sim). I also spend a fair amount of time on safety and operations: when something goes wrong, you want people who've already seen the movie — I'm one of the people in that loop.

I still get a kick out of understanding the whole stack, not just my corner. Robots were never supposed to be single-file problems.

~3 years at Rapyuta Robotics in Tokyo — AMRs and autonomous forklifts, lots of Japan sites, lots of nights keeping fleets happy, and a few projects I’m still proud of (automation around testing/deploy, and cutting network setup pain with an on-robot LTE idea that actually stuck).

Plus whatever internal tooling the day throws at me — you know how it is.

Demos and write-ups on the portfolio · thesis and lab work on the academic site.

Master's thesis — peg-in-hole, four control modes Innopolis · KUKA iiwa · vision, haptics, shared autonomy, learning from demonstration Code · Thesis PDF	Bachelor's thesis — VR teleoperation in hazardous environments Nile University · custom 7-DOF arm · ROS · Unity · IoT and AI Egypt 1st Code
Cable-driven robot teleoperation with haptic master 10×7 m workspace · Touch haptics · PLC · Go · websockets Code	KUKA iiwa teleoperation in virtual reality ROS · Unity · Samsung HMD · haptic force feedback Code
Haptic peg-in-hole with impedance control KUKA iiwa · Touch device · compliance for contact-rich insertion Code	Bilateral teleoperation — KUKA iiwa and Touch Force reflection · Cartesian and joint mapping · lab foundation for VR thesis work Demo on portfolio

Escrow AI — smart contracts on Solana Builders Weekend Tokyo · 1st · ¥250k · Takeoff Tokyo · CV + AI/API Pitch deck · Code

Lumenaria — emotion-aware play with Qwen AI Tokyo Game Jam · Unity tiles + in-game Qwen chat · Figma mobile flow Code · Pitch deck · Event recap

Tokyo · Building and breaking things so they ship safer