Andrew Blakey
Principal Software Engineer, Tools Lead at Locus Robotics
Woodstock, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Blakey is a Principal Software Engineer and Tools Lead with 11 years of experience building and operating real-time, map-based monitoring systems for fleets of over ten thousand mobile robots worldwide. Based in Woodstock, Ontario, he blends geomatics and robotics expertise with full-stack engineering to design scalable fleet management, SDKs, and operator interfaces. At Locus Robotics he originated and now manages the continued development of core monitoring tools, having previously driven new product design in similar domains at Clearpath Robotics. His academic background in geography (MSc, University of Waterloo) informs a practical mastery of spatial systems that few software engineers possess. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex spatial-robotics requirements into reliable, production-grade tooling that scales across global deployments.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Geography, Master of Science (MSc), Geography at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (200)
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hotkeys10
doc10
playback10
reducer10
lidar10
thunk-middleware10
semantic-ui10
side-bar10
editor10
immutables10
react-library10
python-extension10
redux10
driver10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
locusrobotics/qgis_ros
Jul 2018 - Apr 2020
ROS QGIS Plugin prototype
Contributions:16 commits, 17 PRs, 29 pushes in 1 year 10 months
qgisros
ablakey/kestrel
Oct 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:170 pushes, 15 branches in 10 months
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