Vetted Robot Operating System (ROS) Professionals

“Robotics software engineer with deep ROS/ROS 2 experience spanning both simulation and real hardware. Led a Master’s thesis building a decentralized multi-robot control stack in ROS 2 (Isaac Sim + Nova Carter), implementing nonlinear MPC (casADI) and RRT* planning with SLAM/3D LiDAR, and tackled tricky frame-convention integration issues. Previously built an autonomous quadruped for first responders (PACRR), integrating LiDAR/RGB-D/IMU sensors and tuning navigation behavior through iterative field testing.”

“Robotics software engineer from Bigbot who led localization and perception for an outdoor autonomous delivery robot, building ROS2/Nav2-based autonomy with EKF sensor fusion (IMU/odometry/GPS) and perception-driven dynamic costmaps. Experienced taking systems from Gazebo simulation to real-robot deployment, optimizing real-time behavior via logging-driven debugging and latency reduction, and integrating heterogeneous comms (MAVROS/MAVLink, UART/CAN, MQTT) for distributed and multi-robot setups.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on hardware integration who built an AI-enabled smart dog door using a Raspberry Pi, camera-based recognition (DeepFace adapted for dogs), and stepper motor control (TB6600/NEMA 17). Experienced in ROS/ROS 2 across perception-to-controls, rigorous bag-driven debugging of SLAM/navigation issues, and deploying robot software with simulation-in-the-loop testing plus Docker/Kubernetes CI/CD.”

“Robotics software engineer with experience spanning safety-critical embedded medical hardware (low-cost neonatal baby warmer with PID temperature regulation) and advanced multi-robot planning research (belief-space planning with abstraction + MCTS to handle uncertainty). Strong ROS/ROS2 practitioner (Nav2/SLAM Toolbox/MoveIt) who builds custom packages (e.g., Insta360 panoramic imaging) and is hands-on debugging real robots from SLAM/frontier exploration to multi-robot collision avoidance and real-time performance.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer with experience building customer-facing contact-center automation (agent assignment) and internal editorial/data operations APIs for life-sciences ontology management. Strong in microservices and event-driven systems (Spring Boot + Kafka), third-party integrations (Genesys/Five9), and pragmatic iteration via MVP scoping, tight stakeholder demos, and observability-focused reliability.”

“Machine learning robotics engineer with internship experience deploying object detection and semantic segmentation models to an autonomous vehicle fleet operating in airports and naval docking stations, optimizing with ONNX/TensorRT for NVIDIA Jetson edge deployment. Also built ROS/ROS2-based decentralized multi-drone coordination (TF trees, shared telemetry) validated in Gazebo and networked via Nimbro with sub-10ms latency messaging.”

“Built and deployed a production-grade, multi-agent Text-to-SQL assistant that lets non-technical stakeholders query large enterprise databases in natural language. Uses Pinecone-based schema retrieval + LLM reasoning (Gemini/Claude/GPT) with a dedicated validation agent (schema/syntax checks and safe dry runs) to reduce hallucinations and improve reliability, while optimizing latency and cost via async execution and embedding caching.”

“Unity/Unreal developer who solo built a cross-platform Unity system for firefighters (master’s thesis) spanning Windows, HoloLens 2, and Android, integrating eye tracking, thermal imaging data streaming, and location tracking. Demonstrated practical problem-solving by working around HoloLens IO limitations via PC-based data streaming, and also built a Unity tower defense prototype with upgrades, economy, difficulty scaling, and sound design.”

“Software/product engineer who owns customer-facing internal platforms end-to-end, with deep experience building data pipeline health and data quality tooling (near-real-time alerting and ops dashboards). Strong in React/TypeScript + Python REST architectures and microservices with RabbitMQ, emphasizing reliability patterns (idempotency, DLQs, correlation IDs) and fast, safe iteration via feature flags, testing, and observability.”

“Ingeniero de Robótica y Automatización con 10 años de experiencia en instalaciones robóticas (principalmente sector aeronáutico) y proyectos de investigación en UK. En una gran empresa ferroviaria programó desde cero una instalación con 3 robots Staubli con tracks y desarrolló una plataforma de virtualización/simulación en ROS 2 (Gazebo/MoveIt 2), incluyendo integración industrial OPC UA/Profinet con PLC para 21 ejes y visualización en tiempo real.”

“Embedded/EV charging test & validation engineer working across EVSE and EVCC products, specializing in CAN/DBC analysis, firmware deployment, and HIL testing. Built custom Python GUI tools (CAN explorer + configurable test scenario runner) to accelerate diagnostics and reproducibility, and has resolved high-stakes customer interoperability issues by pinpointing hardware/firmware edge cases. Actively looking to pivot into robotics, leveraging prior robotics projects (SLAM, path planning, vision/perception).”