Kevin Karol
Owner at Crossed Wires Studio L.L.C.
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Karol is a software engineer specializing in robot behaviors and human-robot interaction, with 11 years of experience building interactive, production-ready systems from small consumer robots to autonomous vehicles. He has driven experience prototyping and cross-functional collaboration at Zoox and explored LLM-robotics intersections at Google, bringing research ideas into real-world testing and deployment. At Anki he shipped rapid-iteration behavior updates informed by user testing, and more recently he’s helping develop the next generation of home robots at Sunday. Trained in both computer science and theatrical directing at Carnegie Mellon, he blends technical rigor with storytelling and stagecraft to design compelling, user-centric interactions. He also runs a theater company, applying live-performance sensibilities to prototype empathy and narrative in robot behavior. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he excels at translating user research into iterative software and firmware solutions that work in complex production environments.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BCSA, Computer Science and Directing, BCSA, Computer Science and Directing at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (5)
3d-reconstruction9
sdk9
volume-rendering9
anki8
python8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SEITheater/pml_play_repository
Jan 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
kevinmkarol/playAnalyzer
May 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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