Addison Sears-collins
Chief Technology Officer at Visa Hunter
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAddison Sears-collins is a CTO and robotics-focused technologist with eight years of engineering leadership building AI-powered service robots for healthcare. Based in Atlanta, he leads Cassini Robotics’ engineering and product strategy to create human-centered automation that supports caregivers, enhances patient experience, and enables in-home telemedicine. He combines academic rigor (M.S. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins and an earlier M.S. in Meteorology) with hands-on robotics, computer vision, and deep learning work to move systems from research to real-world deployment. Founder of AutomaticAddison.com, he also runs one of the largest robotics education blogs, demonstrating a talent for translating complex technical ideas into accessible tutorials and community resources. His background spans startups, corporate research, and product commercialization—including roles that blend technical invention, go-to-market thinking, and financial leadership. Unusually, his career pairs early work in environmental and financial modeling with later robotics innovation, giving him a data-driven lens on physical-world automation.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.) Meteorology, Master of Science (M.S.) Meteorology at Penn State UniversityHigh School, High School at Woodward AcademyBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Physics & Environmental Sciences (Double Major), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Physics & Environmental Sciences (Double Major) at University of Virginia
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (3)
robot5
ros4
robotics4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
automaticaddison/mycobot_ros2
Feb 2024 - Dec 2024
Automatic Addison support for the myCobot robotic arm by Elephant Robotics - ROS 2
Contributions:378 pushes, 3 branches, 2 comments in 10 months
automaticaddison/yahboom_rosmaster
Nov 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:136 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 3 months
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