Washington Kamadi

Mechatronics & Robotics Engineer

Mechatronics and Robotics engineer from Kenya, now a PhD researcher in Space Science and Technology at the University of Trento. I work on climate-smart robotics, privacy-preserving AI platforms and IoT systems.

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Education & Research

University of Trento

PhD Student — Space Science and Technology

Nov 2026 — Present

Doctoral researcher in the Department of Physics, on the Space Science and Technology doctoral programme in Trento, Italy.
Working on climate-smart robotics, privacy-preserving AI platforms and IoT systems.

Pan African University Institute for Basic Sciences, Technology and Innovation

MSc, Mechatronic Engineering

Jul 2024 — Aug 2026

Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, Nairobi, Kenya.

Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology

Mechatronic Engineering

Sep 2017 — Dec 2022

Department of Mechatronics, Juja, Kenya.

Featured Projects

Magistrala

Open-source IoT platform framework for connecting and managing devices over MQTT, CoAP, HTTP and WebSocket. I contribute to the Go codebase at Abstract Machines.

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Cocos AI

Confidential computing system for AI, running workloads inside trusted execution environments so models and data stay private. I contribute to the Go codebase at Ultraviolet.

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Cube AI

LLM protection with TEEs — serving and interacting with large language models inside hardware-backed enclaves. I contribute to the Go codebase at Ultraviolet.

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About Me

Hi, I'm Washington — an Advanced Mechatronics and Robotics engineer from Kenya, currently a PhD researcher in Space Science and Technology at the University of Trento. I'm passionate about robotics, IoT and confidential computing, and about what they can do for a sustainable future. Right now I'm working on climate-smart robotics, privacy-preserving AI platforms and IoT solutions. Alongside that I contribute to open-source infrastructure in the same space — Magistrala, an IoT platform framework, and Cocos AI and Cube AI, which bring confidential computing to AI workloads. I work mostly in Go, Python, C/C++, MATLAB, ROS and TypeScript. Ask me about confidential computing, IoT protocols, robotics or climate change.