Louise Poubel
Staff Software Developer at Waabi
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolLouise Poubel is a staff software developer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 12 years of experience building and leading simulation and robotics software teams. Currently leading Waabi’s Simulation Platform work on generative AI, she previously ran simulation engineering at Zipline and was a long-time technical lead at Open Robotics where she helped evolve the Gazebo simulator. Her hands-on contributions span GUI and back-end simulation work—implementing 3D visualization plugins, ROS–Gazebo integration, point-cloud and camera data conversions, and CI/CD for documentation—demonstrating an unusual blend of product-facing UI and low-level sensor-data plumbing. Fluent across international research and engineering environments, her background includes robotics and control masters degrees and early work converting human motion capture into humanoid kinematics. Colleagues know her for shipping robust simulation infrastructure that bridges open-source ecosystems and production autonomous systems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
CMRJCefet/RJ - Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da FonsecaMaster of Engineering (MEng) Robotics and Control, Master of Engineering (MEng) Robotics and Control at Warsaw University of TechnologyMaster's degree Automation and Production Systems, Master's degree Automation and Production Systems at Centrale NantesIntensive Japanese for MEXT scholars Japanese Language and Literature, Intensive Japanese for MEXT scholars Japanese Language and Literature at Osaka University of Foreign StudiesBachelor of Science (BS) Electromechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electromechanical Engineering at 千葉大学 Chiba University
English, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Polish
Github Skills (26)
simulation10
docker10
c-language10
robotics10
gazebosim10
simulations10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
front-end-development10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
ros10
gazebo-simulator10
visualization9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
gazebosim/ros_gz
Mar 2019 - Jul 2022
Integration between ROS (1 and 2) and Gazebo simulation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:134 reviews, 118 commits, 211 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Louise primarily worked on integrating ROS (Robot Operating System) and Gazebo simulation. Their contributions involved removing dependencies, converting interfaces, and adding support for new messages like camera info and fluid pressure. They also created a point cloud package, and implemented the conversion of depth and color information from the image and depth camera sensor. These changes improved the communication and data exchange between ROS and Gazebo.
gazeboignitionroboticscppignition-transport
gazebosim/gz-sim
Feb 2021 - Sep 2022
Open source robotics simulator. The latest version of Gazebo.
Role in this project:Software Engineer (Robotics/Simulation)
Software Engineer (Robotics/Simulation)Contributions:3 releases, 1179 reviews, 241 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Louise contributed to the gz-sim repository by implementing features for the "3D Plot" GUI plugin, specifically focusing on visualizing and interacting with 3D plot data. Their work involved modifying code in the Plot3D.cc file, suggesting an involvement with the simulation's GUI components and the handling of the data. The commits also demonstrate knowledge of utilizing the ignition::gazebo library and its GUI frameworks.
robotics-simulationignitionsdfsimulationsimulator
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