Nathan Hewitt
Robotics Software Engineer at HITT Contracting Inc.
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Hewitt is a robotics software engineer with eight years of experience building learning-based control, autonomy, and simulation stacks for manipulators and multi-agent systems. He has driven end-to-end projects from novel MPC research and PyTorch-based state predictors to hardware validation on UR5e arms, and recently applied those skills in industry roles including Booz Allen and HITT Contracting. Comfortable in C++, Python, ROS, and real-time system integration, he focuses on robust, reactive behaviors that bridge cutting-edge research and practical deployment. Nathan’s background spans academic research on sparse success objectives and human-swarm interaction to production-oriented tooling and data pipelines, revealing a knack for turning complex control concepts into reliable fielded systems. Based in Virginia, he combines rigorous experimentation with pragmatic engineering to deliver autonomy that works outside the lab.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at University of North Carolina at CharlotteFulbright Summer Institute, Fulbright Summer Institute at University of StrathclydeMaster of Science - MS, Robotics, Master of Science - MS, Robotics at Oregon State University
Github Skills (49)
point-cloud10
pcl9
cpp9
computer-vision9
python8
elevation8
lidar8
point-cloud-library8
google8
pytorch7
robotics7
rviz7
tensorflow7
classification7
slam7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wvu-irl/reu-swarm-ros
May 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:202 commits, 2 pushes in 3 months
nhewitt99/nhewitt99.github.io
Nov 2021 - May 2026
Contributions:23 pushes in 4 years 7 months
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