Noah Bertschmann

About

System-level robotics software engineer with production experience in both ROS 1 and ROS 2 who served as technical owner for an initial ROS1→ROS2 migration, including catkin→ament/colcon and refactoring core communication nodes. Strong in hardware-validated integration work—debugged intermittent message drops by tuning ROS 2 QoS for embedded firmware interfaces and stabilized real-time navigation behavior through timing/telemetry analysis and cross-team coordination.

Experience

Education

Key Strengths

• Technical ownership of ROS 1 to ROS 2 migration strategy and execution
• Deep practical understanding of ROS 2 QoS and its impact on reliability with embedded firmware
• Incremental, low-risk migration approach (parallel proof-of-concept on live robot)
• Build and tooling migration experience (catkin to ament; clean builds with colcon)
• Hardware-in-the-loop debugging and validation on production robots
• System-level debugging of real-time navigation failures via logs, topic timing, and state transitions
• Cross-team collaboration with autonomy and firmware teams to isolate timing/interface issues
• Improving observability across interfaces (logs/telemetry/message timing) to stabilize production behavior

Reference Highlights

• Strong growth in C++ skills
• Solid understanding of ROS principles
• Quick to learn
• Learns systems in depth (ROS 2 differences vs ROS 1)
• Good debugging skills
• Strong QA intuition for anticipating bugs
• Efficient problem-solving under time pressure
• Delivers on schedule despite late-discovered issues
• Excellent collaborating with hardware teams
• Comfortable working around hardware
• Thrives in fast-paced, hands-on environments
• Thorough and detail-oriented in investigations
• Strong documentation
• Hard working
• Dedicated
• Enthusiastic
• Brings a valuable perspective
• Huge asset to the team