Russell Schwartz
Senior Perception Software Engineer at Astrobotic
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRussell Schwartz is a Senior Perception Software Engineer with nine years of experience building robotics and perception systems, currently helping Astrobotic develop guidance and sensing stacks for precise lunar landings. He combines academic rigor from Carnegie Mellon and Maryland with hands-on spacecraft-relevant work at JPL and APL, where he developed terrain-relative navigation, feature extraction, and flight-plan optimization tools. Comfortable across Python, Fortran, Docker, and embedded/robotics stacks, Russell has a track record of turning research-grade algorithms into fieldable systems and testbeds. He’s particularly skilled at bridging sensor processing, mapping, and localization—demonstrated by plugins that evaluated localization accuracy for Perseverance imagery and simulation tooling for networked systems. Based in Pittsburgh, he also runs a personal site (russ-stuff.com) that showcases experiments and pragmatic tooling not always visible in formal publications.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of MarylandMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (24)
gtk8
gravity8
qt8
simulator7
matplotlib7
groupme7
python7
data-visualization6
physics6
simulation6
visualization6
data-science6
discord-bot5
discord5
tower4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rschwa6308/Arithma
Mar 2017 - May 2019
Math puzzle game created in Pygame
Contributions:2 PRs, 26 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 1 month
mathpythongamepygamepuzzle
rschwa6308/Music-Management
Dec 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:47 commits, 3 PRs, 40 pushes in 1 year 10 months
musiclibrary-managementpythonmusic-library
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