Nick Rotella
Senior Software Engineer at Agility Robotics
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Rotella is a senior software engineer and robotics researcher with a PhD in computer science and seven years of cross-domain experience building perception, estimation, and model-based control systems for humanoid, marine, aerial, and industrial robots. He has shipped state estimation and control stacks for Agility Robotics’ Digit and led R&D efforts at Seegrid and Ainstein to integrate radar, lidar, cameras, and IMU into real-time ROS-based systems. Equally comfortable deriving algorithms from first principles and productionizing them on embedded GPUs, he blends rigorous academic research with hands-on hardware testing and simulation. His work spans trajectory optimization, MPC, SLAM, and sensor fusion—often implemented in C/C++ and Python—and has enabled large-scale autonomous mining operations and GPS-guided marine navigation. Colleagues rely on him to bridge theory and implementation, and his personal site documents a body of applied research that connects humanoid locomotion insights to practical autonomy problems.
7 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Github Skills (16)
lists10
ros10
nodes4
explore4
javascript3
sensor2
github2
detector1
python1
caffe1
api1
tensorflow1
visualize1
sdk1
configurations1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
AinsteinAI/ainstein_radar
Oct 2018 - Aug 2021
ROS support for Ainstein radar sensors.
Contributions:5 reviews, 339 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 11 months
rossensorsros2radar
AinsteinAI/ainstein_radar-release
Sep 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:439 pushes, 128 branches in 4 months
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