Vetted Robot Operating System (ROS) Professionals

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on SLAM, ROS2, and distributed multi-robot systems experience. Improved MAST3R-SLAM loop-closure place recognition by changing the ASMK/ASMKS retrieval similarity metric (L2→L1) and validated on 9 TUM sequences, keeping near real-time performance despite a 25–30% retrieval cost increase. Also tuned MoveIt motion planning for a 6-DOF arm (12% higher maze completion rate) and built MQTT mesh communications for ESP32-based AMRs, using Gazebo+Docker and CI-style automation for reproducible testing and deployment.”

“Robotics/SLAM-focused engineer who worked on RT-Appearance mapping using NetVLAD, replacing traditional CV feature extraction with a deep learning approach to improve loop closure in repetitive green environments. Has hands-on ROS1/ROS2 experience (including bridging), point-cloud alignment with G-ICP for sensor-parameter matching, and Gazebo+Docker simulation testing for motion planning/perception.”

“Union College robotics graduate with hands-on ROS experience building an independent “waiter bot” that took spoken orders (Mozilla DeepSpeech), used OpenCV, and navigated via SLAM on a TurtleBot with LiDAR. Also led the Union College Robotics crew for four years and implemented PID control for micromouse maze robots; has additional software deployment experience with Dockerized FastAPI and CI/CD from coursework.”

“Robotics software engineer with ~3.5 years in ROS/ROS2 mobile robotics, SLAM, and control who owned end-to-end integration for a sim-to-real mobile platform (Zephyr), including ros2_control, EKF sensor fusion (IMU + Vicon), and Gazebo validation with quantified accuracy. Also built a multi-drone CSLAM stack integrating ORB-SLAM3 and PX4 offboard control, scaling via namespaces, synchronization/QoS discipline, and performance debugging with ros2_tracing.”

“Master’s thesis (Industrial Automation) building a real Automated Guided Vehicle entirely solo using ROS 2 Jazzy and Isaac ROS—implemented everything from a C++ ROS2 Control hardware plugin (UART to ESP32 for encoders/PWM) through EKF fusion, SLAM Toolbox, and Nav2 (NavFn + DWB) with lidar obstacle detection. Now porting the stack to Jetson Orin + Isaac ROS to add RealSense-based 3D perception, NVIDIA VSLAM, and Nvblox, and has also built a full AGV simulation in Gazebo Classic.”

“Robotics software engineer with thesis work optimizing the Autoware perception pipeline via DDS/synchronization tuning for lower latency and better throughput, plus hands-on ROS1/ROS2 experience deploying perception (YOLOv8) and SLAM/localization on real vehicles and delivery robots. Has practical debugging depth (Kalman filter crashes, transformation/scan-matching issues) and CI/CD automation experience with Jenkins.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on UAV multi-agent collision avoidance, combining Behavior Trees with MPC and validating in a ROS-based simulator via PX4 hardware-in-the-loop. Has hands-on experience debugging real-time estimation/control issues (EKF noise/arming failures), building distributed ROS service architectures, and smoothing MPC trajectories to meet kinematic and FAA right-of-way constraints.”

“Robotics engineer leading development of a Physical Reservoir Computing controller for a pneumatic soft robotic arm, owning everything from automated data collection and leak-testing automation to hardware design/manufacturing and cross-lab integration with Virginia Tech. Built ROS 2/DDS-based multi-robot systems integrating OptiTrack, a lab quadruped, and a UR5e, and pairs simulation (Gazebo/MuJoCo) + PPO RL training with production-ready tooling (Docker, CI/CD, Flask dashboards, RAG chatbot portfolio).”

“Robotics software candidate who built a Q-learning smart delivery drone navigation system, focusing on 2D path planning with dynamic obstacle avoidance using reward shaping and real-time sensor feedback. Actively learning ROS 2 by building Python simulation projects with publisher/subscriber patterns and has experience coordinating multi-agent drone simulations via message passing.”