Michael Swan
Robotics Systems Engineer at FieldAI
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Swan is a robotics systems engineer with 11 years of experience designing and integrating complex robotics software for both monolithic and distributed systems. He has driven navigation, localization, perception, simulation, and mixed-reality capabilities at JPL for planetary exploration and now builds applied robotics solutions at FieldAI. Michael blends software architecture and hands-on engineering—shipping perception models, photorealistic simulators, and deployment pipelines—while leading integration and test across multi-robot projects. His background spans real-time RTOS development, cloud-native microservices, and POMDP/event-action system design for autonomy, showing fluency from embedded C++ to Kubernetes orchestration. An award-winning developer and mentor, he favors durable, well-tested systems and team-building that enable long-lived operational products. Based in Tulsa, OK, he pairs academic training in intelligent robotics (USC) with practical field experience on mission-critical systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science: Intelligent Robotics, Master of Science - MS Computer Science: Intelligent Robotics at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at Walla Walla UniversityComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at University of California, RiversidePre-Engineering, Pre-Engineering at La Sierra University
Github Skills (44)
controller10
robotics9
jetson9
robot9
ros9
nvidia9
scene9
3d-reconstruction8
jpl8
modular7
urdf7
nodes6
lidar6
physics6
gpu6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ProlificSwan/Skybots
Apr 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 year 4 months
roboticsarduinorobotics-competitioninterfacesc-project
RMichaelSwan/MogrifierLSTM
Nov 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:24 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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