Steve Robbins
Software Developer at Monteris Medical
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Robbins is a Senior Principal Software Architect with 25 years of experience designing and delivering medical imaging and image-guided surgical systems, currently leading MR thermography and real-time MR retrieval efforts at Monteris Medical. He combines deep expertise in object-oriented design, generic programming, and system/user interaction with a track record of turning research-grade algorithms into robust, regulatory-ready products. His work spans architecture, real-time control (including collision avoidance for surgical robots), and production-grade image processing pipelines that reduced noise sensitivity and accelerated clinical workflows. Steve has led cross-functional teams, defined company-wide development and configuration management policies, and mentored engineers to raise overall software quality. An active contributor to the Insight Toolkit (ITK), he has improved MINC2 image I/O robustness in a major open-source scientific imaging library. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from McGill and pairs rigorous academic training with pragmatic, safety-critical engineering delivery.
25 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Physics, BSc, Physics at University of ManitobaMSc, Physics, MSc, Physics at University of TorontoPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at McGill University
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Github Skills (13)
itk10
image-analysis10
medical-imaging10
c-language10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
open-source9
cputime6
idisposable6
continuous-integration6
appconfig6
groovy6
msbuild6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK
Sep 2008 - Dec 2021
Insight Toolkit (ITK) -- Official Repository. ITK builds on a proven, spatially-oriented architecture for processing, segmentation, and registration of scientific images in two, three, or more dimensions.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 2 PRs in 13 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily contributed to the `itk` repository by modifying C++ code related to the `MINC2ImageIO` module. Their changes included fixing bugs, such as an off-by-one error and incorrect dimension indexing, enhancing functionality by making `CanWriteFile` case-insensitive, and improving code style through removal of redundant code and backslashes. The contributions focused on improving the robustness and usability of the ITK library, specifically related to reading and writing MINC2 image files.
pythonitkcomputer-visionopen-sciencescientific
smr99/lego-hub-tk
Feb 2021 - Feb 2022
Pythonic connector for the LEGO Mindstorms/Spike Prime robot hub
Contributions:3 reviews, 37 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year
roboticspythonmindstormsconnectorlego
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