Isabel Paredes
Scientific Software Developer at QuantStack
Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolIsabel Paredes is a Scientific Software Developer with 8 years of experience marrying robotics, control systems, and web-native tooling to make ROS more accessible. Based in Germany, she specializes in Python, C++, JavaScript, MATLAB and ROS, and has a track record of cross-compiling ROS to WebAssembly to run robot workflows in the browser. At QuantStack she built JupyterLab extensions and widgets—contributions that include Jupyter-ROS tooling used to call services and actions from notebooks—and presented "Teaching ROS with JupyterLab" at ROSCon 2022. Her background blends textbook robotics (RWTH MS, UC Berkeley BS) with hands-on hardware and automation experience from Tesla, AUV projects, and legged robot trajectory optimization. She also brings systems-level discipline from six years as an Aegis computer network technician in the US Navy, which informs her pragmatic approach to testing and deployment. Isabel combines research-driven innovation with practical engineering to lower the barrier for robotics education and experimentation in browser-based environments.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering, 3.9, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering, 3.9 at University of California, BerkeleyMaster of Science - MS, Robotic Systems Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Robotic Systems Engineering at RWTH Aachen UniversityAssociate’s Degree, Electronics/Science and Math, 3.97, Associate’s Degree, Electronics/Science and Math, 3.97 at Coastline Community CollegeAegis Computer Network Technician Diploma, Aegis Systems, 94, Aegis Computer Network Technician Diploma, Aegis Systems, 94 at Aegis Training & Readiness CenterENGINEERING, 4.0, ENGINEERING, 4.0 at San Diego Community College District
German, Spanish
Github Skills (5)
ipywidgets10
python10
ros10
jupyter10
websocket5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
RoboStack/jupyter-ros
Apr 2022 - Sep 2022
Jupyter widget helpers for ROS, the Robot Operating System
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 19 reviews, 55 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Isabel primarily contributed to the development of Jupyter widgets for the Robot Operating System (ROS). They added functionality for service and action clients, enabling interaction with ROS services through Jupyter notebooks. The contributions included implementing the widget framework itself, as well as providing examples that demonstrated the usage of the widgets to call existing ROS services and action servers for turtlesim applications. These changes enhance the usability of ROS within Jupyter environments, allowing for easier development and experimentation.
roboticspythonrobot-operating-systemwidgetoperating-system
IsabelParedes/staged-recipes
Jul 2022 - Mar 2025
A place to submit conda recipes before they become fully fledged conda-forge feedstocks
Contributions:2 PRs, 62 pushes, 17 branches in 2 years 8 months
placeconda-forgerecipescondapython
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