Gedaliah Knizhnik
Staff Software Engineer at Forterra
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolGedaliah Knizhnik is a Staff Software Engineer and roboticist with a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and seven years of experience building real-time control, planning, and embedded systems for aquatic and mobile robots. He combines systems-level software design with hands-on hardware development—PCBs, SolidWorks prototyping, and ESP32-based RTOS firmware—to deliver robust platforms that operate in challenging real-world flows. His doctoral work on underactuated, modular, reconfigurable surface robots produced novel C++/Python control algorithms and energy-efficient cooperative behaviors validated in a dedicated aquatic test facility. At Forterra he applies that same end-to-end approach to production robotic software, focusing on maintainable architectures that scale as capabilities grow. Known for mentoring students and leading multi-year research projects, he brings both academic rigor and practical engineering trade-offs to complex autonomy problems.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering at University of Maryland - A. James Clark School of EngineeringDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering at University of Pennsylvania
English, Russian, Hebrew
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Github Skills (15)
mqtt10
iot10
automation10
home-assistant10
privacy10
raspberry-pi10
python10
home-automation10
asyncio10
jekyll9
internet-of-things9
garden9
documentation8
inheritance6
ros5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gedaliahknizhnik/serial-kinematics-cpp
Dec 2023 - Aug 2024
Lightweight library for manipulating serial kinematics chains
Contributions:8 PRs, 19 pushes, 8 branches in 7 months
gedaliahknizhnik/filtering-cpp
Nov 2023 - Apr 2024
A CPP smoothing library for incoming data streams
Contributions:14 PRs, 23 pushes, 9 branches in 4 months
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