Benjamin Kolligs
Senior Engineer - Robotics Software at Maven Robotics
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Kolligs is a Senior Robotics Software Engineer with eight years of experience building autonomy for lunar rovers, search-and-rescue platforms, and AI-driven manipulation systems. Trained at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Systems Development program, he blends state estimation, motion planning, controls, simulation, and machine learning to deliver field-ready robot brains—from Kalman-filtered flight software used on MoonRanger to production ML-driven manipulation at Ambi. Now advancing simulation and reinforcement learning at Maven Robotics, he has a track record of turning research-grade algorithms into robust software architectures and vehicle models that handle real-world slip and sensor drift. A physicist and former student pilot, he brings a systems-level intuition and experimental rigor that often surfaces non-obvious practical fixes to perception and control problems.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Robotics Systems Development, Master of Science - MS Robotics Systems Development at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA Physics Math, Bachelor of Arts - BA Physics Math at Lewis & Clark College
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Github Skills (127)
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robotics9
rust9
cargo9
cpython9
cffi9
ffi9
pypy9
wheels9
pypi9
computer-vision8
compiler8
multimodal8
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
dynamacore/pyrobo
Jul 2021 - Mar 2022
A python package for use in rapid development of robotic systems
Contributions:1 review, 14 commits, 11 PRs in 7 months
roboticspythonrapid-developmentrobotrapid
bkolligs/vobo
Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
Lightweight OpenGL/Vulkan based visualizer software for Robotics prototyping purposes
Contributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 95 pushes in 8 months
roboticscpppythonvisualizervulkan
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