Alan Federman
Consultant at Ubiquity Robotics
Marina, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Federman is a robotics-focused consultant and Ph.D. physical scientist with over a decade of hands-on experience building and maintaining mobile robots, platforms, and tooling from research labs to commercial deployments. A co-founder of Ubiquity Robotics and former Stanford JackRabbot systems engineer, he blends embedded systems, ROS, sensing (LIDAR/optical), and field engineering to make robots reliable and accessible for app-style development. His background spans NASA, USGS, and academia, where he led systems engineering, data management, and education initiatives—often bridging hardware, software, and operations under tight deadlines. He teaches maker and electronics topics, mentors competitive robotics teams, and contributes to open robotics projects, reflecting a long-running commitment to community-driven robotics education. Not obvious from a resume line-item: he pairs deep scientific training in oceanography with decades of practical Unix/system administration and scripting, enabling rapid prototyping and robust deployment in both lab and customer-facing environments. Based in Marina, California, he focuses on turning broken, missing, or working-but-awkward systems into dependable, usable robotic platforms.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Earth and Space Sciences, BS, Earth and Space Sciences at SUNY Stony BrookMS, Oceanography, MS, Oceanography at University of Rhode IslandPh.D, Oceanography, Ph.D, Oceanography at Oregon State University
Github Skills (48)
webots10
gazebosim10
ubiquity10
libcamera10
marine10
robot10
stem10
ros-driver10
robotics9
minecraft9
usb9
v4l29
ros9
simultaneous8
fiducial-markers8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
UbiquityRobotics/blog
Sep 2017 - Mar 2021
Contributions:11 pushes in 3 years 6 months
anfederman/mockturtlebot
May 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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