Katherine Scott
Developer Relations Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKatherine Scott is a Developer Relations Engineer with 14 years of experience bridging computer vision, robotics, and manufacturing software for both research and production. Based in San Francisco, she advocates for ROS2 and Gazebo, contributes to core ROS 2 documentation, and represents open hardware as a board member of the Open Source Hardware Association. Her background spans hands-on image processing, AR, and embedded robotics systems with deep C/C++ and Python expertise, and she’s led image analytics teams at Planet and 3Scan. A former co‑founder and longtime mentor in tech education, she combines pragmatic engineering leadership with community-building and technical writing that clarifies complex ecosystems.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSE Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering, BSE Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering at University of MichiganMS Computer Science - Computer Vision Machine Learning Graphics, MS Computer Science - Computer Vision Machine Learning Graphics at Columbia Engineering
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Github Skills (12)
restructuredtext10
ros10
documentation10
computer-vision6
opencv6
eye-tracking6
zbar6
kinect6
pygame6
python6
histogram6
segmentation-fault6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ros2/ros2_documentation
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
ROS 2 docs repository
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:167 reviews, 22 commits, 93 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Katherine primarily contributed to the repository by updating and expanding the ROS 2 documentation. Their work involved fixing syntax errors, improving whitespace consistency, and providing more context for the documentation. The user updated the documentation to reflect changes in the ROS 2 ecosystem, including the migration of ROS Wiki pages and addition of new resources. They also contributed by adding information for the governance of the ROS 2 project.
roboticsros-2rosros2
kscottz/resume
Jan 2016 - Apr 2019
Latex repository for my CV, resume, and other stuff.
Contributions:21 commits, 2 PRs, 21 pushes in 3 years 3 months
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