Duncan Calvert
Doctoral Student at University of West Florida
Pensacola, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDuncan Calvert is a PhD candidate and research associate with 11 years of hands-on experience building fast behaviors and tooling for humanoid robots, currently working at IHMC and the University of West Florida. He contributed to the DARPA Robotics Challenge effort (helping secure a 2nd place $1M award) and has worked directly on simulation, test automation, and UIs for Atlas and Valkyrie platforms. His background spans systems and firmware engineering, robotics productization, and cost-conscious web/cloud solutions for small businesses, demonstrating an ability to move projects from prototype to revenue. Comfortable in Agile teams and Java ecosystems, he combines first-principles problem solving with practical engineering to make humanoid robots useful outside the lab. He’s based in Pensacola, Florida, and is notable for translating research-grade robotics software into deployable systems and automation frameworks.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of West FloridaDiploma, Diploma at Pace High School
Github Skills (200)
webots10
3d10
gradle-plugin10
momentum10
robotics10
groovy10
controller10
windows10
junit10
geometry10
dynamics10
gradle10
gazebosim10
trajectory-generation10
affinity10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
eterpega/ihmc-open-robotics-software
Jan 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:105 commits in 1 year 1 month
ihmcrobotics/repository-group
Sep 2017 - Feb 2023
Gradle files for importing multi-repository builds into IDEs.
Contributions:2 reviews, 92 commits, 7 PRs in 5 years 6 months
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