Mikael Arguedas
Head Of Product at Time for the Planet
France
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Top SchoolMikael Arguedas is a senior roboticist and product leader with 11 years of experience building hardware-software systems and leading robotics teams, currently Head of Product at Les Fermes Debout in France. He blends deep hands-on engineering—contributions to core ROS 1/2 libraries, ros1_bridge, rcl/rclpy and tooling like rosdep and osrf/docker_images—with product strategy and DevOps expertise. A committed open-source maintainer, he has improved critical robotics infrastructure used broadly across the ROS ecosystem and contributed to PCB automation in KiCad. Passionate about accessible, planet-positive technology, he pairs rigorous academic training in robotics (Georgia Tech, ENS) with a maker’s practicality and community-driven mindset. Notably, his work spans low-level C++ and Python client libraries to CI/Docker workflows, reflecting both systems-level thinking and attention to developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Electronics and Computer Engineering for robotics, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Electronics and Computer Engineering for robotics at Georgia Institute of TechnologyEngineer diploma / Diplôme d'ingénieur Embedded Systems / Electronique des Systèmes Embarques, Engineer diploma / Diplôme d'ingénieur Embedded Systems / Electronique des Systèmes Embarques at Ecole nationale supérieure de l'Electronique et de ses ApplicationsDUT GEII Electrical Engineering and Computer Science specialized in Robotics and Real Time Operating Systems, DUT GEII Electrical Engineering and Computer Science specialized in Robotics and Real Time Operating Systems at IUT de Cachan
French, English, Spanish
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
ros/actionlib
Mar 2016 - Apr 2021
Provides a standardized interface for interfacing with preemptable tasks. Examples of this include moving the base to a target location, performing a laser scan and returning the resulting point cloud, detecting the handle of a door, etc.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:42 commits, 45 PRs, 51 pushes in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Mikael primarily focused on updating and maintaining the project's changelog files, documenting and reflecting version updates. They also made changes to Python code, including the action client and server, by incorporating configurable queue sizes, python 3 compatibility, and code cleanup. Furthermore, the user removed misleading error logs and made assertions to the program in debug mode.
point-cloud
osrf/docker_images
May 2017 - Jan 2023
A repository to hold definitions of docker images maintained by OSRF
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:23 reviews, 561 commits, 519 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Mikael primarily focused on maintaining and updating Dockerfiles and the associated CI/CD pipelines for the `osrf/docker_images` repository. They added new Dockerfiles for different ROS distributions (Lunar, Melodic, Noetic, Humble, Rolling) and ROS2 versions, as well as modifying existing entrypoint scripts. The user migrated to GitHub workflows, integrated GitHub Actions, and implemented updates to the Docker library and CI processes. They also fixed minor documentation issues and addressed argument passing problems.
docker-image
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