Samuel R
Vessel Controls Engineer at Mercury Marine
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel R is a Vessel Controls Engineer with eight years' experience designing and validating embedded control and perception systems across maritime, agricultural, and heavy-equipment domains. With a BSEE and hands-on electronics background, he has built FADEC-grade control software, autonomous systems validation for mining operations, and computer vision models powering aftermarket guidance for agricultural machinery. He combines low-level control expertise (PID, actuators, ruggedized interfaces) with machine learning pipelines and product-facing beta work, bridging lab prototyping and field-deployed systems. At Mercury Marine he applies this cross-domain systems thinking to vessel controls, informed by prior roles developing autonomy stacks and vision products at AutonomouStuff and Precision Planting. A practical tinkerer from instrumentation labs to production vehicles, he’s equally comfortable debugging cryogenic lab hardware as iterating on ML data pipelines.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Florida State UniversityNanodegree, Self-Driving Car, Nanodegree, Self-Driving Car at UdacityAAS, Electronic Technologies, AAS, Electronic Technologies at North Dakota State College of Science
German
Github Skills (33)
game-controller9
ros9
ros-driver9
driver9
nodes8
joystick8
abstraction8
controlling8
abstraction-layer8
robotics8
platform-agnostic8
sensor8
controller7
fusion7
network-interface7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
astuff/pacmod2
Oct 2017 - Mar 2019
A ROS driver for the AutonomouStuff PACMod drive-by-wire system.
Contributions:14 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 5 months
vehicle-controldrive-by-wirerosros-interfacepacmod
astuff/ssc_joystick
Jun 2018 - May 2019
Software for passing joystick commands to AutonomouStuff's low-level control software.
Contributions:9 commits, 7 PRs, 7 pushes in 11 months
low-leveljoystickpassing
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