Keegan Nave
Robotics Software Engineer at Kawasaki Robotics
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolKeegan Nave is a robotics software engineer with eight years of experience building robust autonomy, perception, and manipulation systems, currently based in San Jose and working at Kawasaki Robotics. He holds a Master's in Robotics from Oregon State University and has contributed to NASA Ames' OceanWATERS projects, implementing fault-tolerant autonomy plans and C++ architectures for simulated lander missions. Keegan’s academic research focused on agricultural robotics, while his earlier work developed automated testbeds and monitoring tools that bridge simulation and real hardware. Comfortable across ROS, C++, and PLEXIL, he has a track record of turning research prototypes into reliable, testable systems used in both labs and simulated mission environments. Notably, his internships at NASA produced open-source contributions to the OceanWATERS repositories, reflecting a habit of sharing practical tooling. He combines academic rigor with hands-on engineering to deliver resilient embedded and autonomy software for challenging robotic applications.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Robotics, Master's degree, Robotics at Oregon State University
Github Skills (13)
github9
bounding9
git9
patch7
signed7
trimesh7
obj6
sdf6
pickle5
subversion5
mesh4
bounding-box3
interpolation3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Keeganfn/SDF-generator
Nov 2020 - May 2021
Generates a signed distance field over the bounding box of a .obj mesh file using trimesh. Also allows you to save generated SDF's to pickle files, to perform trilinear interpolation of a given point and to vizualize final SDF array.
Contributions:37 commits, 2 PRs, 31 pushes in 5 months
mesharrayboxpicklebounding
OSUrobotics/automated_testbed_core
Oct 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:12 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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