Toby Collett
Senior Manager - Robotics Technology Center at Crown Equipment Corporation
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolToby Collett is a senior robotics leader and engineer with 13 years of experience building industrial automation and off-truck fleet systems, currently managing Crown Equipment’s Robotics Technology Center. He combines deep academic expertise—a PhD in Human-Robot Interaction—with hands-on C++ systems architecture and Linux-based robotics engineering, and founded New Zealand startup Inro Technologies. Toby has led cross-disciplinary teams from technical lead to senior manager, shipping on-premise fleet control and cloud integrations for automated vehicles. An early open-source robotics maintainer and contributor to the Player Project, he brings a long-running commitment to community-driven tooling that informs his pragmatic approach to system design. Notably, his career blends mobile platform systems work at Sony and startup-scale product delivery, giving him rare breadth across embedded, cloud, and fleet orchestration domains.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Robotics, PhD, Robotics at University of Auckland
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Github Skills (37)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
thjc/lwf
Nov 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:50 pushes, 1 branch, 3 comments in 3 months
thjc/garden
Nov 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 29 days
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