Jordan Lack
Senior Robotics Engineer at Terradepth
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJordan Lack is a Senior Robotics Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience designing humanoid and autonomous systems, currently focused on robotics at Terradepth in Houston. He blends mechanical design, control theory, and software development—having led controls and motion planning for Valkyrie and developed autonomy software for drones and marine robots. Jordan’s background spans academic research at Texas A&M to industry roles at Nauticus and Raytheon, giving him deep expertise in bipedal locomotion, control math, and production-grade robotics software. Equally at home writing control algorithms as he is iterating mechanical designs, he treats robotics as both career and craft, continuously learning new languages and techniques to push system performance.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M UniversityBachelor's degree Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Mechanical Engineering at Oklahoma State University
Github Skills (125)
simulator10
ros10
client-library10
robotics10
ignition10
collada10
asset-pipeline10
fbx10
simulation10
gazebosim10
lists10
stl10
robot-simulator10
urdf10
robotics-simulation10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openhumanoids/val_description
Jun 2015 - Sep 2016
The valkyrie_description package contains the URDF file for Valkryie as well as xacro files for generating the URDF and meshes for visualization
Contributions:547 commits in 1 year 3 months
roboticsvalkyrieurdfmeshesxacro
jlack1987/mobility_utilities
Aug 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:108 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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