Achille Verheye
Engineering Manager at GrayMatter Robotics
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolAchille Verheye is an engineering manager and robotics specialist with nine years of experience leading product-focused teams across startups and scale-ups in the Bay Area and San Diego. Trained at UPenn’s GRASP Lab with an MS in Robotics and MIT experience, he blends academic rigor with hands-on system engineering from motor control to full-stack tooling. He co-founded robotics ventures and advanced commercial robot platforms at Freedom Robotics and GrayMatter Robotics, moving from senior engineer to people manager. Active in open source, he contributed readable tooling and robust ROS motor-control refactors to NASA JPL’s Open Source Rover projects, showing a knack for documentation automation and clean, PEP8-compliant code. Colleagues know him for simplifying complex mechatronic systems and automating tedious data tasks—like converting CSV parts lists into maintainable Markdown—so teams can iterate faster. Based in San Diego, he pairs entrepreneurial drive with deep robotics firmware and software expertise.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mechanical Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mechanical Engineering Computer Science at KU LeuvenVisiting student Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Visiting student Biomedical/Medical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologySummer school program Engineering Design, Summer school program Engineering Design at Columbia UniversityMaster of Science Engineering Robotics, Master of Science Engineering Robotics at University of Pennsylvania
English, Dutch, French, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
robotics10
controller10
python10
csv-parser10
controls10
csv10
ros10
markdown9
data-formats9
data-format9
refactor9
formatting9
parameterization9
markdown-it9
merge9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
nasa-jpl/osr-rover-code
Mar 2020 - Dec 2022
Code that runs on the Open Source Rover
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 46 reviews, 214 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Achille primarily focused on modifying the `roboclaw_wrapper.py` file to use ROS parameters instead of hardcoded values. They also refactored and improved code in both `motor_controller.py` and `roboclaw_wrapper.py` to merge functionalities, add docstrings, and address PEP8 violations. Furthermore, the user worked on renaming and refactoring classes in order to improve readability and streamline the interaction with the roboclaw motor drivers. This work involved incorporating changes related to motor control and ensuring more robust ROS node operation.
roverpythonruns
nasa-jpl/open-source-rover
Apr 2020 - Nov 2022
A build-it-yourself, 6-wheel rover based on the rovers on Mars!
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 103 reviews, 117 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Achille primarily focused on developing and maintaining a parts list generator using Python. They created a script to convert CSV files into a readable Markdown format for the project's README.md file. This involved parsing CSV data, calculating costs, and generating tables, indicating a focus on data processing and documentation automation for the rover project. The user also merged branches and made minor adjustments to existing build scripts.
roboticsmarsrobotwheelmars-rover
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