Ruffin White
Business Owner at White Robotics LLC
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRuffin White is a multidisciplinary roboticist and PhD researcher turned business owner in California, with 13 years of experience advancing long-term autonomy, security, and reproducible practices in robotics software. He bridges academic research and industry by improving the usability and security of open-source robotics stacks, notably maintaining Docker tooling and CI for ROS and the widely used Navigation2 framework. His work as a DevOps and automation engineer has sped up builds and hardened code coverage for ROS 2 projects, and he contributed to automating OSRF docker image builds to streamline developer workflows. Comfortable in both research fellowships and hands-on engineering roles, he combines rigorous academic training with practical infrastructure expertise to make robotics software more accessible and auditable. An advocate for reproducibility, he quietly pioneers tooling and CI patterns that reduce friction for researchers and operators alike.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoMasters of Science (MS) Robotics, Masters of Science (MS) Robotics at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyCarnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (20)
github-ci10
docker10
python10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
ci-cd-pipeline10
code-coverage10
automations10
githubaction-workflow10
ros9
gazebo-simulator8
build-automation8
navigationbar8
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
osrf/docker_images
May 2015 - Sep 2022
A repository to hold definitions of docker images maintained by OSRF
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:33 reviews, 587 commits, 349 PRs in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ruffin primarily focused on automating the build process and managing the Docker images within the repository. Their contributions include creating and modifying scripts for generating Dockerfiles for various ROS and Gazebo environments, as well as implementing build hooks. Furthermore, the user's work involved updating and refactoring the scripts, including the integration with the `docker_templates` library and the setup of a Travis CI integration to automatically create PRs. Their changes resulted in a more streamlined and automated build process.
definitionsdocker-imagedockerdocker-images
ros-navigation/navigation2
Jan 2019 - Jan 2023
ROS 2 Navigation Framework and System
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:76 reviews, 180 commits, 160 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Ruffin focused on improving the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline for the ROS 2 navigation framework. They made significant changes to the Dockerfiles, including the introduction of multi-stage builds for faster builds and caching. Additionally, they updated the code coverage reporting process by using fastcov, fixing coverage issues, and integrating with Codecov. Their work streamlined the build process and improved the quality assurance of the project.
roboticsros2autonomous-robotsrosnavigation
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