Matthew Shaeffer
Senior Staff Engineer at Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Shaeffer is a Senior Staff Engineer at Johns Hopkins with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and running advanced materials and impact-testing laboratories. He combines deep experimental expertise in high-rate mechanics—having specified and installed millions in research equipment and built custom drop-tower and laser-shock facilities—with teaching graduate-level applied biomedical engineering labs. His work spans academia, government and industry partnerships, managing large program logistics (including ceramic inventory for a $90M Army program) while advising on sensitive bio-interfacing studies such as impact-induced optical neuropathy. Comfortable at the intersection of instrumentation, safety, and research proposal development, he also mentors students and coordinates STEM outreach for the institute. Based in Baltimore and active within JHU’s engineering programs, he brings a rare blend of practical lab engineering, project management, and subject-matter depth that enables rapid translation from experiment design to validated results.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBS, Mechanical Engineering, BS, Mechanical Engineering at Boston University
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Github Skills (28)
object-tracking10
robotics10
autonomy10
state-machine10
computer-vision10
ros10
3d9
behavior-tree9
geometric9
robot9
ros-node9
optimization8
simulation8
industrial-automation7
graph6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jhu-asco/dsl_gridsearch
Apr 2015 - Jul 2018
ROS node for global path planning using D*-lite on a 2D or 3D grid.
Contributions:16 commits, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 4 months
3dros-node
msheckells/mesh_localize
Oct 2014 - Aug 2018
Real-time Model-based Object Tracking in 3D
Contributions:65 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 3 years 10 months
3dobject-trackingroscomputer-visionrobotics
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