KatherineĀ Scott
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarKatherine Scott is a Developer Relations Engineer with 14 years of experience bridging robotics, computer vision, and hardware-software systems from San Francisco. She drives developer engagement at Intrinsic while advocating for Open Robotics and contributing to ROS 2 documentation and governance, helping make complex robotics tooling more accessible. Her career spans leading image analytics teams at Planet and 3Scan and co-founding Tempo Automation to accelerate PCB prototyping, reflecting both systems-level engineering and hands-on hardware design. With an MS in Computer Science from Columbia and a BSE in EE/CE from the University of Michigan, she blends academic depth in vision and ML with practical product delivery. Outside product work she serves on the Open Source Hardware Association board and mentors at Code Nation, underscoring a long-term commitment to community, education, and open-source ecosystems.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (4)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ros2/ros2_documentation
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
ROS 2 docs repository
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:167 reviews, 22 commits, 93 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Katherine primarily contributed to the repository by updating and expanding the ROS 2 documentation. Their work involved fixing syntax errors, improving whitespace consistency, and providing more context for the documentation. The user updated the documentation to reflect changes in the ROS 2 ecosystem, including the migration of ROS Wiki pages and addition of new resources. They also contributed by adding information for the governance of the ROS 2 project.
roboticsros-2rosros2
kscottz/resume
Jan 2016 - Apr 2019
Latex repository for my CV, resume, and other stuff.
Contributions:21 commits, 2 PRs, 21 pushes in 3 years 3 months
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