Will Heitman
Lab Operations Engineer
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolWill Heitman is a Lab Operations Engineer with eight years of robotics and systems experience, currently keeping humanoids, quadrupeds, manipulators, sensors, and testbeds running at the RAI Institute while contributing to internal tooling. He holds an MS in Robotics Systems Development from CMU and a BE in Computer Engineering, combining rigorous academic training with hands-on lab engineering. Previously he led Nova UTD’s undergraduate autonomous driving team, building full hardware/software stacks, and during a USDA ARS internship he open-sourced a state-of-the-art soil analysis tool that reduced results from weeks to seconds. Comfortable across hardware, firmware, and software, he brings practical maintenance rigor to research environments and a track record of shipping reproducible, open tools. Based in Pittsburgh, he pairs systems-level troubleshooting with a researcher’s attention to reproducibility and scalable testbeds.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at DallasLouisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts (LSMSA)Master of Science - MS, Robotics Systems Development, Master of Science - MS, Robotics Systems Development at Carnegie Mellon University
French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
robotics10
autonomous-vehicles10
navigator10
ros10
autonomous-driving10
mavlink9
robot7
fabrication7
ssh7
computer-vision6
tiddlywiki6
bots6
opencv6
machine-learning6
python6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Nova-UTD/navigator
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Navigator, our self-driving vehicle software stack
Contributions:3 releases, 40 reviews, 468 commits in 1 year 10 months
navigatorroboticssoftware-stackros2self-driving
arbor-robotics/ecosim
Jan 2024 - Dec 2024
Contributions:1 release, 11 PRs, 89 pushes in 10 months
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