Ethan Rublee is a seasoned robotics and startup founder with 15 years of experience building hardware-enabled software companies, currently CEO and Co-Founder of Space-ng after leading farm-ng and founding Arraiy and Industrial Perception. He combines deep hands-on expertise in robotic systems, computer vision, and build systems with executive product and company leadership across multiple successful ventures. Ethan’s open-source contributions to core ROS projects (including rosjava and catkin) and Android-CMake toolchains underscore a pragmatic mastery of cross-language integration, build tooling, and mobile-native robotics clients. He has repeatedly bridged research-grade robotics work (Willow Garage, Google X) to production platforms for creators and agriculture, demonstrating an unusual fluency from low-level JNI/C integration up to CEO-level strategy. Based in Watsonville, California, he favors shipping practical examples and tutorials that democratize robotics development, not just internal prototypes.
CMake toolchain file and other scripts for the Android NDK
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Contributions:35 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Ethan primarily contributed to the development of an Android application, creating a "hello world" example with JNI. The user's commits demonstrate the creation of necessary Java files, JNI implementations in C, and the setup for building and running the application. Furthermore, the user worked on integrating CMake build system for the Android project, including toolchain configuration and documentation.
An implementation of ROS in pure Java with Android support.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:69 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ethan primarily contributed to the development of ROS (Robot Operating System) in Java. They focused on sketching out a client API, refactoring code, and moving files between directories. Furthermore, the user added a tutorial example of a simple publisher and subscriber node. They demonstrate skills in Java and ROS concepts.
roboticsros2pure-javaandroidandroid-support
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