Brian Wilcox
Software Engineering Manager at Shield AI
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Wilcox is a software engineering manager specializing in robotics, ROS2, and embedded Linux with nine years of experience building autonomy infrastructure and developer workflows. He has led teams at iRobot and Shield AI to improve ROS2 architecture, testing, and CI practices while also contributing core mapping functionality to the widely used navigation2 ROS2 project. His background spans academic research in Bayesian learning and biomechanics to practical system design for consumer and human-assistive robots, giving him a rare blend of control-theoretic depth and production-grade software engineering. Known for reducing developer and product costs through better tooling and architecture, he focuses on performance, testability, and scalable autonomy interfaces. Based in Los Angeles, he combines hands-on porting and refactoring experience with a track record of guiding cross-functional teams toward robust, real-world robotic systems.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBachelor of Science (B.S.) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyGarland High School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
navigationbar10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
ros10
navigationview10
navigation-drawer10
testing9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ros-navigation/navigation2
Sep 2018 - Dec 2019
ROS 2 Navigation Framework and System
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:197 commits, 152 PRs, 66 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Brian contributed to adding the costmap_2d from ROS1 navstack to the ROS 2 Navigation Framework. They focused on importing the core functionality, including the costmap_2d itself, and associated libraries and tests. The work involved porting code, refactoring components, and implementing tests for the map server functionality. These commits involved primarily porting code from ROS1 to ROS2 and creating a new map server.
roboticsros2autonomous-robotsrosnavigation
bpwilcox/rclcpp
Nov 2018 - Mar 2024
rclcpp (ROS Client Library for C++)
Contributions:8 PRs, 70 pushes, 21 branches in 5 years 4 months
client-librarycpprosrclcpp
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