Ryan Soussan
Robotics Engineer at NASA Ames Research Center (Aerodyne)
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Soussan is a robotics engineer with 10 years of experience building robust autonomy and localization systems, currently applying his skills at NASA Ames in Palo Alto. He has a strong autonomous driving background from Bosch and led software teams at RoboteX, combining systems-level thinking with hands-on implementation. His open-source contributions to NASA's Astrobee project — including dynamic IMU filtering, IMU bias configuration, and flight mode switching in the graph localization system — demonstrate deep expertise in sensor fusion and real-time localization. Comfortable across back-end systems and embedded robotics stacks, he repeatedly improves stability and fault handling in complex robotic platforms. A Princeton-trained electrical engineer, he pairs academic rigor with practical field experience from research labs to operational space robotics. He often surfaces non-obvious improvements (e.g., factor removal fixes and feature-count handling) that materially increase system reliability.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BSE, Electrical Engineering, BSE, Electrical Engineering at Princeton University
English, French
Github Skills (13)
graph10
imu10
localization10
robotics10
optimisation10
ros10
optimization10
kalman-filter9
sensor-fusion9
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
autonomy9
python8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nasa/astrobee
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
NASA Astrobee Robot Software
Role in this project:
Back-end & Robotics Engineer
Back-end & Robotics EngineerContributions:114 reviews, 41 commits, 96 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Ryan made significant contributions to the NASA Astrobee Robot Software by adding dynamic IMU filtering, improving IMU configurations, and implementing flight mode switching within the graph localization system. They also modified various scripts to handle feature counts and improved the overall system stability. The user worked on the ground truth localizer, added features for IMU bias configuration, and fixed a bug related to factor removal, demonstrating a deep understanding of the project's core localization features.
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rsoussan/astrobee
Aug 2020 - Aug 2024
NASA Astrobee Robot Software
Contributions:3 releases, 4 reviews, 28 PRs in 4 years
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