Shane Loretz
Software Engineer at Intrinsic
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShane Loretz is a robotics-focused software engineer with a decade of experience building and hardening core ROS (Robot Operating System) infrastructure and tools, now based in Mountain View. He has contributed significantly to ROS 2 client libraries (rclcpp, rcl, rclpy), CLI tooling, navigation, and rviz visualizer work—fixing memory leaks, extending action/server support, and modernizing APIs to improve robustness and performance. Shane blends backend C++ expertise with Python, DevOps and CI/CD automation (Docker, EC2), and a strong attention to documentation and developer ergonomics, having updated key ROS docs and migration guides. His work spans both high-level user-facing demos and low-level timing, QoS, and remapping fixes, showing a rare comfort across the stack of robotics middleware. He holds a Computer Engineering degree from San Jose State and brings practical production experience from roles at Intrinsic and Open Source Robotics Corporation.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
San José State University
Github Skills (67)
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Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
ros2/rclpy
Aug 2017 - Dec 2022
rclpy (ROS Client Library for Python)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:373 reviews, 132 commits, 324 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Shane primarily contributed to the development of the rclpy (ROS Client Library for Python), focusing on features related to action servers and their supporting infrastructure. Their work involved implementing and refining the API to support action clients and servers, improving the threading model for callback processing through executors, and implementing a mechanism to trigger goal status callbacks. They also added improvements to the timers and timekeeping functionalities of the library.
client-librarypythonrosrclpy
osrf/car_demo
Jan 2017 - Jan 2019
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:81 commits, 1 PR, 1 branch in 2 years
Contributions summary:Shane focused on automating the build and deployment process for the `car_demo` repository. Their contributions included creating scripts to build and run Docker containers, deploy images to an EC2 instance, and manage the overall environment. They also refactored docker files for automated building, demonstrating a strong focus on CI/CD and infrastructure management.
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