Bret Witt
Guidance Navigation & Controls (GNC) Associate
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBret Witt is a Guidance, Navigation & Controls engineer with a decade of experience building robotics and space software, now applying his skills at Astranis while completing an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at UW–Madison. His background spans hands-on simulation and control work at JPL and university labs, including terramechanics, lunar mobility, state estimation, and risk-aware planning for Mars and Moon missions. Comfortable across ROS/ROS2, reduced-order and Gaussian process models, and real-time simulation stacks, he blends academic rigor with mission-driven engineering. Based in Honolulu, Bret brings a practical curiosity—having tutored math and CS and transitioned from a CS bachelor’s into advanced mechanical systems—which helps him translate complex algorithms into reliable onboard and simulation software.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Moanalua High SchoolM.S, Mechanical Engineering, M.S, Mechanical Engineering at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Hawaii at Manoa
Github Skills (56)
simulation10
physics-engine10
robotics10
simulations10
dynamics10
modeling10
reloaded9
physics9
x-plane9
high-performance9
slam-algorithms9
c-library9
cpp9
orb9
multiphysics8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bretwitt/hina_ssi
May 2022 - Feb 2023
Hina (TaRO-SCM) Soft Soil Simulation Gazebo Plugins
Contributions:127 commits, 8 PRs, 134 pushes in 8 months
taroignitioninteractionsimulationplugin
RoboticSpaceExploration/protobot
Oct 2021 - Apr 2022
Rover to test our planned perception, planning, and control algorithms
Contributions:43 reviews, 80 commits, 56 PRs in 5 months
manipulationroboticsvisionpybulletautonomous-robots
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