Sebastian Castro
Roboticist Applied Scientist at RAI Institute
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolSebastian Castro is a multidisciplinary robotics engineer with 12 years of experience building robot behavior, task-and-motion planning, and system architecture for both research and product teams. He’s shipped complex autonomous behaviors in C++ and Python across companies from Boston Dynamics to PickNik and MIT CSAIL, and currently focuses on dexterous manipulation and open-source tooling with Respite Robotics and NASA collaborations. A systems-minded practitioner, he blends modeling, simulation, perception, and control with a strong emphasis on software engineering best practices and reproducible research infrastructure. Passionate about education, he has led training and community efforts at MathWorks and mentors newcomers to make robotics more accessible to those without traditional backgrounds. Behind the scenes he hosts personal projects and calls himself an impostor on GitHub, reflecting a humble, hands-on approach to continuous learning and public-facing code.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MS Mechanical Engineering, MS Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (169)
webots10
inverse10
fcl10
http-streaming10
kinematics10
python10
simulator10
command-line-interface10
code-generation10
pinocchio10
drake10
state-machine10
arduino-library10
cpp10
ros10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
PickNikRobotics/moveit_studio_sdk
Aug 2023 - Mar 2024
MoveIt Studio SDK
Contributions:4 releases, 34 reviews, 19 PRs in 7 months
sea-bass/pyroboplan
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Educational Python library for manipulator motion planning
Contributions:3 releases, 98 reviews, 124 PRs in 1 year 2 months
manipulatorplanningpython
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