Connor Brooks
Software Engineer at Blue Origin
Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolConnor Brooks is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in human-in-the-loop robotics and motion planning, currently building systems at Blue Origin after roles at Applied Intuition and Everyday Robots. He holds an advanced computer science education from the University of Colorado Boulder, where his Ph.D. research advanced human intention inference, hierarchical planning under uncertainty, and AR visualization of robot intent. Connor blends research rigor with production engineering—implementing optimization-based planners for mobile manipulators and immersive simulation pipelines in Unity for verification. Comfortable across academic, defense, and commercial settings, he has worked on AI interpretability, synthetic data analysis, and drone vision tooling, signaling a pragmatic focus on making robots that communicate effectively with people.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at University of Colorado BoulderBachelor's degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Mathematics and Computer Science at Western Kentucky University
Github Skills (16)
autonomous-robots7
trajectory-generation7
robot7
solver6
robotics-simulation6
urdf6
simulation6
ros6
motion-planning6
augmented-reality4
java4
gazebo-simulator3
roslibjs2
robotics2
autonomy2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Zortrox/CS496-Project
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:38 PRs, 65 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
hri-ironlab/predikct
Feb 2022 - Oct 2023
Contributions:6 PRs, 7 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 7 months
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