Igor Kalevatykh is a software engineer with eight years of professional experience combining robotics research and applied software development across academia, industry, and startups. Trained with an Engineer's degree in Robotics from Bauman MSTU, he has strong expertise in C++, Python, ROS, computer vision and machine learning, and a track record of migrating legacy systems to modern robotic frameworks. His work spans research-driven development at Inria to leading a development team on video surveillance analytics and improving cloud-based products, and he currently contributes to Liftoff Mobile. Igor also contributes to open-source robotics tooling, notably adding Python bindings and a Panda3D visualizer to the widely used Pinocchio rigid-body dynamics library, showing a pragmatic focus on developer usability and visualization. Comfortable shipping production systems and prototype research code alike, he brings both low-level algorithmic rigor and hands-on engineering to robotics and vision problems. Based in Archamps, France, he combines academic depth with practical product delivery across verticals from finance to laboratory automation.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Diploma with honours, Engineer's degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Diploma with honours at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
A fast and flexible implementation of Rigid Body Dynamics algorithms and their analytical derivatives
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Robotics Engineer
Contributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 13 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Igor focused on adding Python bindings to the Pinocchio library, specifically implementing a Panda3D-based visualizer for robot models. Their contributions included creating the visualizer class, integrating it with the Pinocchio framework, and providing example code. They made several iterations to improve imports and fix minor issues, as well as refining the example usage to display multiple robot models.
Contributions:53 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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Igor Kalevatykh - Software Engineer at Liftoff Mobile