Andy Mcevoy
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolAndy Mcevoy is a robotics software engineer with 12 years of experience blending academic rigor (PhD in Robotics, M.S. in Computer Science) and hands-on product delivery across defense, space, and commercial robotics. He has led teams as Robotics Software Lead at Maxar and now builds production systems at ICON, with a track record in ROS-based frameworks, kinematics, and mechanical design. As a co-founder of PickNik Consulting he translated research into deployable tooling and training, and his open-source contributions include extending PickNikRobotics' rviz_visual_tools C++ API to improve visualization primitives and pose generation. Comfortable toggling between low-level C++ implementations and system-level integration, he brings a practical, test-minded approach to complex mechatronic problems. Based in Austin, he combines aerospace roots and naval structural analysis experience with a penchant for making robotic perception and motion easier to debug and visualize.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Texas A&M UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Robotics at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (9)
visualization10
c-language10
eigen10
visualizations10
cprogramming-language10
ros10
rviz10
3d10
geometry9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
PickNikRobotics/rviz_visual_tools
Feb 2015 - Oct 2017
C++ API wrapper for displaying shapes and meshes in Rviz
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 13 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily contributed to the development of a C++ API wrapper for displaying shapes and meshes in Rviz. Their work included adding new functionalities such as displaying cuboids, lines, and arrows. The user also implemented features like changing the colors, including options to clear colors, and introduced methods to generate and display random poses. Additionally, the user has addressed comments on pull requests, improving the code quality.
cpprviz
mcevoyandy/blender_urdf_visualizer
Oct 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 29 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 9 months
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