Austin Deric
Software Team Lead at Wilder Systems Robots
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin Deric is a robotics software leader with 10 years of experience building production-grade autonomy, cloud robotics, and fleet coordination systems. Currently a Software Team Lead at Wilder Systems Robots, he has previously led engineering and product alignment as Director of Software at Tailos, delivering web/mobile customer interfaces, APIs, and rigorous BDD testing that runs in both simulation and real-world environments. He has deep ROS2 expertise across Navigation, SLAM, behavior trees, multi-robot coordination, and edge vision pipelines, combined with hands-on CI/CD, Yocto-based Linux platforms, and large-scale dataset and dashboard tooling for data-driven product decisions. Earlier roles include developing cloud-enabled human-in-the-loop pick-and-place solutions and a decade of multidisciplinary robotics R&D at Southwest Research Institute, giving him a rare blend of customer-facing project leadership and low-level systems craftsmanship. He’s an entrepreneur who founded Robot Web Services to explore cloud platforms for ROS and consistently applies that product-minded, scalable thinking to ship reliable robotic systems. Based in San Antonio, he pairs mechanical engineering foundations with a practical knack for turning research prototypes into commercially successful robotics products.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of Texas at San Antonio
Github Skills (200)
displays10
catkin10
ply10
realsense10
blending10
cpp10
ros10
robotics10
intel10
occupancy-grid-map10
ignition10
camera10
sdk10
computer-vision10
autonomous-robots10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
AustinDeric/industrial_calibration
Feb 2017 - Jun 2020
Contains libraries/algorithms for calibration industrial systems
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 4 months
calibrationindustrialprediction-model
Maidbot/grid_map
Oct 2019 - Dec 2021
Universal grid map library for mobile robotic mapping
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 3 PRs in 2 years 2 months
roboticsgrid-mapmappingmapgrid
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