Chris Denniston
Principal Engineer at Blue River Technology
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Denniston is a Principal Engineer and USC PhD candidate with 12 years of experience building perception, SLAM, and estimation systems for multi-robot and autonomous platforms. He has held senior roles across robotics and autonomy firms—most recently at Blue River Technology after applied-science and perception stints at Cruise, Parallel Systems, OffWorld, and research internships at JPL—bridging cutting-edge research with production deployments. His doctoral work focuses on combining underwater vehicles and drones to study algal blooms, reflecting a rare blend of environmental science applications and advanced state estimation. Comfortable in both field robotics and software engineering, he repeatedly delivers robust multi-robot SLAM solutions that scale from research prototypes to operational systems. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs deep academic rigor with hands-on system integration experience across aerospace and commercial autonomy.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaShawnee Mission East High SchoolBachelors Computer Science, Bachelors Computer Science at University of Missouri-Kansas City
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Github Skills (99)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
octopuscabbage/smallab
Jul 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:53 releases, 4 reviews, 134 commits in 3 years 5 months
octopuscabbage/ChrisDenniston-Resume
Jul 2015 - Nov 2019
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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