Vetted ROS 2 Professionals

“Robotics simulation/localization engineer who built a lunar crater navigation stack in ROS/ROS2 and Gazebo, including custom localization/perception/planning packages. Demonstrated strong debugging skills by using tf2 frame analysis to fix camera-to-base_link alignment, cutting heading error from 75° to 0.48°, and handled large NASA lunar imagery (~4GB) by converting/downsampling data for Gazebo.”

“Stony Brook Fall 2024 capstone contributor who built a ROS2-based warehouse mobile robot prototype, owning perception and SLAM integration end-to-end. Strong in real-time robotics optimization on Jetson Orin (TensorRT/CUDA, ROS2 tracing/Nsight) and in distributed ROS2 communications (DDS discovery/QoS, MAVLink-to-ROS2 bridging), with a full simulation/testing/deployment toolchain (Gazebo, CI tests, Docker/K3s).”

“Robotics software engineer focused on perception/SLAM and systems integration, recently built a quasi-dynamic mapping pipeline to track and reconstruct articulated objects (e.g., drawers) from RGB video using SAM2, COLMAP SfM, and 3D Gaussian Splatting. Also has strong ROS2 sensor-pipeline experience (custom messages, MCAP rosbag deserialization, tf2) and demonstrated real-time performance tuning by accelerating an ICP-based LiDAR SLAM component ~30x (from ~3s to <100ms per frame).”

“Robotics software engineer with ~4 years of ROS experience who implemented a real-time diffusion-policy control loop entirely in Gazebo, focusing on inference-latency reduction (warm-start + truncated denoising) for stable closed-loop execution. Has hands-on experience building custom ROS control nodes, optimizing AMR navigation (SLAM + RRT) with sensor-fusion for dynamic obstacles, and designing deterministic multi-robot coordination; also uses Dockerized ROS environments and automated simulation/benchmark pipelines.”

“Frontend engineer who led Indro Controller, a web interface for autonomous and teleoperated robots used over constrained 5G SIM networks. Rebuilt an outdated proof-of-concept into a modular React/TypeScript system with a component library, complex sensor dashboards (including Three.js 3D), and performance optimizations like backend compression and shared renderer/scene architecture.”

“Autonomy Engineer at Joulea Inc (Atlanta) with ~3 years building a drone autonomy stack end-to-end, spanning controls, swarm path planning, SLAM/LIO, and multi-sensor fusion (lidar/IMU/GPS RTK/camera). Notable work includes lidar degeneracy detection using Hessian-based constraints in an EKF and fusing visual odometry to reduce drift, plus ongoing lidar-camera synchronization and calibration.”

“Robotics/ML engineer who benchmarks and adapts open-source robot action models, building synthetic datasets in Isaac Sim and modifying vendor code to scale training across multiple GPUs. Also built a production-style computer vision pipeline at Zortag—training a tiny YOLO-based classifier for fake-vs-real label detection and deploying it in a real-time iOS app with additional display/spoof detection.”

“Early-career robotics software engineer with a couple years of ROS/ROS2 experience focused on agricultural mobile robots. Led integration of a Livox MID-360 3D LiDAR on the Farm-ng Amiga platform, patching ROS2 drivers/QoS and building a 3D-to-2D mapping pipeline so Nav2 could run reliable SLAM/navigation in GPS-denied greenhouse/hop-field environments, enabling stable autonomous row-following.”

“Robotics project manager and software lead for an underwater ROV (MATE 2024–2025), building a ROS 2 Jazzy stack on Raspberry Pi and a serial Pi-to-Arduino thruster control system for a 6-thruster configuration. Also has internship experience creating automated functional test pipelines using Jenkins, Selenium, and Python, plus exposure to Isaac Sim for simulated/synthetic data generation in an embodied AI hackathon.”

“Robotics software engineer with 2+ years of ROS/ROS2 experience who built a mobile robot stack from scratch (Fusion 360 → URDF → ROS) and integrated teleop, SLAM, and navigation. Worked in an ASU lab applying deep learning for person tracking on a TurtleBot setup, and solved real deployment issues like Raspberry Pi video-stream latency via compression and on-board processing. Also reports experience with CI/CD tooling (Jenkins) and Kubernetes.”

“Robotics software engineer working on GNSS-denied UAV localization using 5G PRS (OpenAirInterface + USRP B210) and multi-sensor fusion, with a published AIAA SciTech 2026 result achieving 1.5m RMSE on low-cost hardware. Also integrating a Vision-Language-Action model (SmolVLA) onto the Stretch 2 platform for language-assisted manipulation, leveraging ROS 2, imitation learning data collection with RGB-D, and simulation in Gazebo/MuJoCo for sim-to-real deployment.”

“Robotics/ROS engineer who led development of ROS 2 nodes for supervising and making safety/mission decisions for autonomous fixed-wing UAVs using PX4 and Gazebo, including handling sensor/battery failures, wind, and obstacle conditions. Has hands-on experience debugging ROS2 multi-node communication (QoS, publish rates) and navigating sim-to-real deployment from SITL to real flight hardware.”

“Robotics software engineer who built the perception-to-planning pipeline for an autonomous bipedal robot: synchronized and fused 3D LiDAR + multiple depth cameras in ROS1 (tf2/message_filters) to produce combined point clouds and 2.5D maps, then implemented and benchmarked A*/D*/RRT plus hybrid A* footstep planning in simulation. Also founded a software company and personally owned CI/CD, security checks (CodeQL), and release automation (custom release bot + Slack notifications).”

“Founding Robotics Research Engineer at Streamline Robotics building precision-agriculture automation: integrated FANUC + PLC harvesting with a Farm-ng Amiga (Jetson) platform using ROS2 Visual SLAM for GPS-free greenhouse navigation. Developed real-time YOLOv8 tomato detection/ripeness estimation for selective harvest and configured Cognex D900 3D inspection, plus redesigned FarmBot Genesis XL and built an automated imaging/labeling pipeline for growth tracking and adaptive watering.”

“Robotics software engineer with competition experience (eYantra agricultural automation) building a simulated drone workflow in Gazebo to detect strawberry boxes via YOLO, pick them with a custom gripper, and autonomously navigate/stack at a truck destination. Strong in ROS2/PX4/Nav2 integration, real-time control debugging (IMU filtering + PID tuning), and planner parameter optimization validated through RViz and log-driven testing.”

“Robotics software engineer who led an energy-aware persistent monitoring project on TurtleBot4/ROS2, building the full stack from simulation and motion control to an energy consumption model and control algorithm implementation. Developed custom ROS2 Python nodes (battery + cmd_vel logging), integrated with Nav2, and handled multi-robot coordination via DDS while troubleshooting network/QoS issues. Also built and tuned a human-aware navigation behavior using Gazebo-based testing and data-driven threshold optimization.”