Annaleah Ernst
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnnaleah Ernst is a robotics software engineer with 11 years’ experience building motion planning and control systems for autonomous mobile robots, most recently leading a team at Amazon Global Robotics to improve on-bot trajectory planning and fleet coordination. She combines deep technical skills in ROS, C++, and Python with hands-on R&D experience across research and production, and a track record of translating academic research into reliable, human-safe autonomy in unstructured environments. A practiced communicator and educator, she has created visualization tools, authored technical materials for non-experts, and taught CS50 sections at Harvard. Beyond engineering, she actively champions diversity, equity, and inclusion inside organizations and brings interdisciplinary curiosity—from ocean research recovering ghost fishing gear to choir performance and visual arts—that fuels creative problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Joint Concentration: Computer Science & Engineering Science: Electrical; Language Citation: Mandarin, Bachelor's degree, Joint Concentration: Computer Science & Engineering Science: Electrical; Language Citation: Mandarin at Harvard UniversityMandarin, Mandarin at Beijing Language and Culture University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (14)
pose9
sparse9
localization8
robot8
robotics7
graph6
cloud9-ide6
odometry5
plugin5
cs505
command-line-tool5
cli4
cloud92
ide2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
haelannaleah/autoturtle
Feb 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:1175 commits, 146 PRs, 1093 pushes in 3 months
roboticsacyclicautonomousexperimentingodometry
tlively/cs51-final
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:173 pushes, 2 branches in 12 days
space-shootershooter
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