Marques Rasmussen
Staff Robotics Software Engineer at KUKA
Arvada, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolMarques Rasmussen is a Staff Robotics Software Engineer with nine years of focused experience designing and shipping robotic systems across industrial, warehouse, and research settings. He combines deep expertise in motion planning (MoveIt/MoveIt2) and ROS/ROS2 control with hands-on hardware, vision, and simulation skills using Gazebo and Isaac Sim. At companies from Raytheon to Locus Robotics he has led cross-functional teams building high-speed pick-and-place systems, autonomous vehicles, and realtime robot drivers — often bridging firmware, perception, and system architecture. He has contributed to MoveIt2 tutorials and documentation, improving onboarding and automated testing for a widely used open-source motion planning project. Known for translating complex kinematics and calibration problems into reliable production systems, he also brings uncommon strength in electrical/mechanical design and CNC/machining from earlier roles. Based in Arvada, Colorado, Marques blends senior technical leadership with practical shop-floor engineering to move robots from prototype to production.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
Github Skills (6)
develop10
ros10
sphinx10
documentation10
github-ci8
githubaction-workflow8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
moveit/moveit2_tutorials
Feb 2021 - Jul 2021
A sphinx-based centralized documentation repo for MoveIt 2
Role in this project:
Technical Writer / Documentation Specialist
Technical Writer / Documentation SpecialistContributions:83 reviews, 18 commits, 51 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Marques primarily focused on improving and maintaining the documentation for the MoveIt 2 tutorials. They updated the "Getting Started" tutorial to reflect changes for MoveIt2 and addressed build and deployment issues related to the documentation. The user also made changes to the `move_group` and `moveit_cpp` tutorials, cleaning up the code and enhancing the examples. Additionally, they improved the build process, including the conditional installation of sphinx, and automated the testing of links within the documentation.
moveit
locusrobotics/ros2_kortex
Apr 2024 - Dec 2025
ROS2 driver for the Gen3 Kinova robot arm
Contributions:12 reviews, 8 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 7 months
driverros
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