Luke Drnach
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Drnach is a Senior Robotics Software Engineer with a decade of experience specializing in motion planning, controls, and autonomy for manipulation and mobile systems. He holds a Ph.D. in Robotics from Georgia Tech and has repeatedly translated research-grade trajectory optimization and contact-aware control into production-ready features that measurably improved picking performance and reduced interventions. At Pickle Robot Company he led and grew motion-planning teams, halved planning latency in key pipelines, and helped secure a nine-figure customer demo by rapidly prototyping novel path optimizations. Comfortable bridging research, product, and field teams, he also established documentation, regression tests, and on-site support practices that cut downtime and accelerated developer productivity. Now based in Atlanta and currently at Agility, he’s seeking to apply and expand his expertise in autonomous systems while mentoring engineers to raise motion-planning rigor across teams.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Robotics at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor’s Degree Bioengineering, Bachelor’s Degree Bioengineering at University of Pittsburgh
Github Skills (2)
intermediate1
java1
Github contributions (5)
GTLIDAR/RobustContactERM
Oct 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:82 commits, 6 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 1 month
ldrnach/pycito_full
Jul 2022 - May 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 25 branches in 9 months
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