Pavel Vechersky
Senior Software Engineer at Board
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPavel Vechersky is a Senior Software Engineer based in California with a decade of experience building full-stack systems across startups, research institutions, and large companies. He led the end-to-end technical development of a wearable reality-capture and 3D reconstruction platform that scaled to global mapping campaigns and was part of an acquisition, then transitioned to building resilient at-scale services for micromobility fleets. His background blends robotics, perception (visual+LIDAR fusion), firmware and hardware integration with backend engineering—demonstrating an ability to move between low-level device drivers and distributed cloud services. At Spin he improved vehicle protocols and reduced operational costs for ~50,000 vehicles, and his open-source work includes significant Gazebo/ROS simulator plugin contributions for the popular RotorS UAV project. Trained at ETH Zürich and UCLA in mechanical engineering, he pairs solid academic grounding with hands-on product delivery and a knack for quickly acquiring new skills to prototype cross-platform solutions.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science (MSc) Mechanical Engineering at ETH ZürichUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English, Russian, German
Github Skills (8)
c-language10
gazebosim10
cprogramming-language10
simulator10
ros10
gazebo-simulator10
python7
aerospace7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ethz-asl/rotors_simulator
Mar 2016 - Jun 2017
RotorS is a UAV gazebo simulator
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:112 commits, 28 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Pavel primarily worked on implementing and refactoring the gazebo plugin for the rotors_simulator. They integrated joystick control, addressed various code and messaging issues within the plugin. Further contributions include adding and refining the handling of ROS messages. Additional contributions include adjustments for the fixed-wing model.
gazeboignitionrobotics-simulationgazebosimros2
weiweikong/rotors_simulator
Mar 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:137 commits in 7 months
gazebosimulationsimulatoruavgazebo-simulator
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