Allison Thackston
Senior Manager Robotics at Women in Robotics
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAllison Thackston is a Senior Manager in robotics with 11 years of hands-on experience building and scaling engineering teams that turn research-grade autonomy into reliable products. She has led high-impact planning and behavior teams at Waymo and Nuro and now drives robotics delivery at Blue River Technology, consistently aligning cross-functional engineering, product, and safety stakeholders. Known for coaching technical leaders, she organizes working groups to tackle hard on-road interactions and vulnerable road-user behavior, blending deep systems engineering with practical safety rigor. A founding member of the ROS2 Technical Steering Committee and longtime contributor to robotics labs and NASA-contracted projects, she brings both academic chops in robotics and real-world system integration experience. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Allison enjoys mentoring engineers and creating sustainable architectures that make complex robots dependable in the wild.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyM.S., Mechanical Engineering - Robotics, M.S., Mechanical Engineering - Robotics at University of Hawaii at Manoa
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Github Skills (69)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
athackst/athackst.github.io
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Git project landing page
Contributions:12 commits, 254 PRs, 486 pushes in 4 months
womeninrobotics/meetingplace-slack-bot
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
A friendly bot to give us a heads up when the next events are.
Contributions:24 PRs, 45 pushes, 26 branches in 1 year 11 months
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