Matt Vollrath
Senior R&D Engineer at End Point Corporation
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Vollrath is a Senior R&D Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building and optimizing real-time web and robotics tooling from Kingsport, Tennessee. He develops and maintains global Liquid Galaxy installations while contributing significant back-end and full-stack improvements to prominent open-source ROS projects—adding CBOR support, WebWorker WebSocket transports, and performance-focused Tornado optimizations. His work spans robotics visualization (ros3djs), protocol servers (rosbridge_suite), and test automation for conversational AI (Rasa), demonstrating a blend of systems-level thinking and pragmatic engineering. Matt also brings game-scripting experience, tuning animation systems via Lua, which reflects a comfort with both low-level performance tweaks and higher-level integration challenges. Skilled at shipping durable, test-covered features, he pairs a BS in Computer Science with a long track record of improving interoperability and efficiency in distributed, real-time systems.
14 years of coding experience
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at East Tennessee State University
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Github Skills (41)
data-visualizations10
threejs10
javascript10
webworker10
cbor10
pytest10
python10
animation10
testing10
tornado10
data-visualisation10
websocket10
lua10
script10
websockets-client10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
RobotWebTools/rosbridge_suite
Oct 2014 - Dec 2020
Server Implementations of the rosbridge v2 Protocol
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 54 commits, 70 PRs in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily worked on enhancing the `rosbridge_server`, focusing on core functionalities and improvements. Their contributions involved installing and optimizing Tornado, a Python web framework, to improve websocket performance. They modularized core components like `RosbridgeWebSocket` and `RosbridgeTcpSocket` and fixed whitespace issues. The user also addressed performance issues, introducing CBOR encoding for data transfer and improving the system's efficiency.
rosbridgeimplementations
RobotWebTools/roslibjs
Dec 2018 - Feb 2020
The Standard ROS JavaScript Library
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 11 commits, 23 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Matt contributed significantly to the `roslibjs` library, adding support for CBOR encoding, which included modifying core files like `SocketAdapter.js` and `Topic.js`, and writing tests for the new functionality. They also addressed issues related to unsupported compression types to enhance the library's forward compatibility. Moreover, they made updates related to build processes and added the WebSocket in WebWorker transport as well as fixing CBOR native array decoding offset.
roboticsjavascript-libraryjavascriptrosthe-standard
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