Collin Thornton
Senior Integration Engineer
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCollin Thornton is a Senior Integration Engineer with a decade of hands-on robotics and autonomy experience, currently integrating systems at Plus after shaping autonomy stacks at Southwest Research Institute. He helped develop a highly reliable autonomous forklift (2 sigma @ 95% confidence) and routinely works with ROS1/ROS2, Python, and C++ on navigation, localization, and control. His background spans UAV swarm control research with the U.S. Army ARL, embedded systems work at Tinker AFB, and multi-agent and estimation projects from his time in OSU’s CoRAL lab. Comfortable mentoring junior engineers and interfacing with clients, he combines research-grade algorithm development with practical system integration for fielded robotic platforms. An engineer who bridges academic rigor and production delivery, he often surfaces subtle reliability and testing insights that improve long-term system robustness.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's of Science, Computer Engineering at Oklahoma State University
Github Skills (28)
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robot-control7
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rover5
visualize5
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
osu-mercury-robotics/2020-Competition
Jul 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:3 releases, 40 commits, 37 pushes in 8 months
collinthornton/pong
May 2016 - May 2024
Contributions:76 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years
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