Jake Keller
Senior Engineer at Shield AI
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Keller is a Senior Engineer with nine years of experience building autonomy, perception, and embedded systems for ground, surface, and underwater robots. He blends an electrical engineering foundation with production-grade software skills to make systems that Sense, Think, and Act—shipping autonomy stacks, ROS packages, and containerized simulations. His work spans research and industry at NC State, Nauticus Robotics, MITRE, and now Shield AI, where he integrates perception and manipulation into operational AUV and autonomy platforms. Notably, he has contributed practical tooling like a Docker-based Heron simulator and a Clearpath OS upgrade fix accepted on GitHub, showing attention to reproducible development and operational reliability. Based in Charlottesville, VA, he thrives at the intersection of hardware and software, tackling real-world autonomy challenges from end-to-end.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Electrical Engineering, 3.333, Master of Science - MS, Electrical Engineering, 3.333 at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (44)
webots10
robotics10
robot-control10
pddl10
behavior10
game-ai10
behavior-tree10
state-machine10
fsm10
planning10
ros10
controlling9
autocomplete9
ai9
motion-planning9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sarcasticnature/dotfiles
Jun 2020 - Jul 2024
Contributions:54 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 1 month
sarcasticnature/ros2_planning_system
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
This repo contains a PDDL-based planning system for ROS2.
Contributions:69 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year
planningrosros2pddl
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