Audrow Nash
Software Engineer at Intrinsic
San Antonio, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolAudrow Nash is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building robotics tooling at Intrinsic AI from San Antonio. He has deep hands-on experience in ROS 2—contributing to core projects like rviz, rclcpp, rclpy, and ros2cli—where his work improved thread safety, executor shutdown behavior, QoS checks, and user-facing tooling. At Open Robotics he acted as the “ROS Boss” for the Humble LTS release and created a Typescript Test Case Manager used across major ROS releases. Beyond code, Audrow has strong editorial and outreach chops: he directed Robohub’s podcast growth from 2k to 120k monthly listeners and hosts the Audrow Nash Podcast. He pairs systems-level C++ and Python engineering with practical QA and documentation contributions, and has collaborated on high-profile projects including NVIDIA integrations and NASA’s VIPER mission. Outside of robotics he’s an avid rock climber, reflecting an appetite for technical challenges both on and off the wall.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of North Carolina at CharlotteMaster of Science - MS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of MichiganMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Southern California
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Github Skills (34)
unit-testing10
c-language10
pytest10
python10
rc10
multithreading10
thread-safety10
testing10
command-line-interface10
qos10
rviz10
exception-handling10
command-line10
rcpp10
rcc10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ros2/ros2cli
May 2020 - Jan 2023
ROS 2 command line interface tools
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:78 reviews, 21 commits, 39 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Audrow primarily contributed to enhancing the `ros2cli` tool, specifically focusing on the `ros2interface` and `ros2doctor` subcommands. Their work involved refactoring the interface display logic and adding new features, such as comment controls and nested message visualization, improving usability. They also implemented quality-of-service (QoS) compatibility checks and reporting features, demonstrating a strong understanding of the underlying ROS 2 middleware and test automation via the use of a custom test framework. This included the creation of new test fixtures and the rewriting of tests using a new test interface dependency.
roboticsros2command-line-interfaceros-2ros
ros2/examples
Aug 2020 - Nov 2022
Example packages for ROS 2
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 7 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Audrow primarily contributed to example packages for ROS 2, focusing on rclpy. Their work included creating example packages for guard conditions, implementing type adaptation, and improving logging within the framework. They also addressed code style issues and updated maintainers, demonstrating involvement in both feature development and maintenance tasks.
roboticsrosros2
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