Marc Alban
Co-Founder & Owner at Hatchbed, L.L.C.
Joshua, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMarc Alban is a robotics and autonomy engineer with 11 years of experience building perception, mapping, and vehicle control systems for on- and off-road platforms, and is now co-founder and owner of Hatchbed, L.L.C. He brings deep hands-on expertise in ROS, C++, SLAM, and sensor fusion—contributing core functionality to the popular slam_toolbox project, including scan-matching refactors and a map-and-localization node. At Southwest Research Institute he designed system architectures for automated shuttles, developed HD lane mapping and lidar calibration tools, and led simulation and field-test programs integrating autonomy onto production vehicles. Known for shipping extensible, well-tested software and for mentoring teams, he combines rigorous academic foundations (MS CS, UT Austin; BS Math & CS, Purdue) with practical field engineering. Based in Joshua, Texas, he thrives on solving hard perception and localization problems that bridge research prototypes and deployable systems.
11 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.73, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.73 at The University of Texas at AustinKettering Fairmont High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science, 3.97, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science, 3.97 at Purdue University
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Github Skills (9)
mappings10
localization10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
slam10
ros10
pose-estimation9
robotics8
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
SteveMacenski/slam_toolbox
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
Slam Toolbox for lifelong mapping and localization in potentially massive maps with ROS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 reviews, 19 commits, 16 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Marc contributed to the core functionality of the `slam_toolbox` repository, focusing on SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) algorithms. Their work included adding features to visualize graph edges, refactoring code related to scan matching and covariance calculations, and publishing pose messages. Furthermore, the user implemented the `map_and_localization` node to allow the user to toggle between mapping and localization modes.
toolboxmappingroslocalization
hatchbed/opensw
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
Open source client SDK for communicating with SlamTec Slamware devices
Contributions:11 commits, 17 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 months
roboticsdriversdkmappingclient-sdk
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