Michael Wiznitzer
Sr Robotics Software Engineer at Neya Systems
Evanston, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Wiznitzer is a Sr Robotics Software Engineer with 8 years of hands-on experience designing autonomy, motion planning, and SLAM systems across industrial, underwater, and off-road robots. With an MS in Robotics from Northwestern, he has built end-to-end robotic capabilities—from a line-following platform to autonomous exploration on a Clearpath Jackal—and led autonomy efforts for a federally funded underwater mine neutralization program. He has a strong ROS/ROS2 pedigree, contributing forks and fixes to MoveIt2, MTC, and ros2_controllers, and introduced the first ROS2 motion-planning pipeline at Sarcos. At startups he combined systems engineering and product focus, e.g., managing a team to add interactive SLAM tooling and safety LiDAR integration for warehouse robots. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he’s delivered reusable motion-planning libraries adopted across multiple projects and improved operator workflows by unifying ROV and manipulator control. Based in Evanston, IL, he balances mechanical engineering roots with deep software and autonomy expertise, often bridging gaps between research, open-source, and production deployments.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Fasman Yeshiva High SchoolMaster's of Science Robotics, Master's of Science Robotics at Northwestern UniversityTalmudic Studies, Talmudic Studies at Yeshivat Sha'alvimBachelor’s of Science Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor’s of Science Mechanical Engineering at Milwaukee School of Engineering
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (39)
robotics10
robot-control10
gazebosim10
hierarchical10
bidirectional10
robot10
moveit10
ros10
astar9
manipulation9
motion-planning9
planning9
lidar8
pcl7
fsm-library7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mechwiz/jackal_exploration
Mar 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:27 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
mechwiz/moveit_task_constructor
May 2022 - Nov 2023
A hierarchical, multi-stage manipulation planner and state machine with user interfaces
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 42 pushes in 1 year 6 months
manipulationstagestate-machinesfsm-libraryfsm
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