Solomon Wiznitzer
Staff II Robotics Engineer at Neya Systems
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSolomon Wiznitzer is a Staff II Robotics Engineer with eight years of experience building motion planning, perception, and ROS-based control systems for research and defense-grade robots. He holds an MS in Robotics from Northwestern and a BS in Biomedical Engineering, and has led projects ranging from automated solar-panel installation and battlefield casualty extraction to precision arm manipulation and LoCoBot navigation. Skilled at integrating open-source tools, he authors ROS/ROS2 wrappers, composes URDFs, and develops MoveIt Task Constructor workflows while contributing fixes and PRs to upstream projects. Beyond hands-on code, he designs Docker-based simulation playgrounds and custom ROS2 Control plugins to bridge hardware and autonomy stacks. Based in New York, he combines academic rigor with practical field experience and a knack for turning complex robot peripherals into reliable, testable systems.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Fasman Yeshiva High SchoolMaster of Science - MS Robotics, Master of Science - MS Robotics at Northwestern UniversityBio-medical Engineering Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Bio-medical Engineering Biomedical/Medical Engineering at Milwaukee School of Engineering
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (103)
webots10
slam-algorithms10
ros10
manipulator10
robotics10
behavior10
ignition10
visual-odometry10
control-systems10
robot-control10
moveit10
wrapper10
gazebosim10
hierarchical10
robot10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
srikanth-kilaru/ml349_ObjectDetection_CNN
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:33 commits, 27 pushes in 1 day
Interbotix/interbotix_ros_turrets
Oct 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:28 commits, 104 pushes, 4 branches in 7 months
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