Daniel Ambrosio
Head Of Software at Volley Automation
Golden, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Ambrosio is a pragmatic software and robotics leader with over a decade of experience delivering autonomy and robotics products across startups and defense contractors, now heading software at Volley Automation. He combines systems-level architecture, infrastructure, and deployment expertise with hands-on engineering — from low-level vehicle control stacks to CI-driven test automation and ROS driver contributions (notably enhancements to the ros-industrial Motoman driver). His career shows rapid progression into leadership roles (VP and Head of Software) while retaining technical influence as a principal engineer and project lead. Daniel’s background in aerospace (MS/BS from University of Colorado Boulder) and proven record on complex integration projects — including autonomous aerial refueling and government contracted robotics systems — give him a rare blend of academic rigor, embedded systems depth, and product delivery focus.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
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Github Skills (5)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
ros10
moveit9
motion-planning8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ros-industrial/motoman
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
ROS-Industrial Motoman support (http://wiki.ros.org/motoman)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 16 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the Motoman driver within the ROS-Industrial framework. Their work involved modifying the driver's code to improve functionality, including handling joint feedback and trajectory interfaces. Key changes included adding return values to existing methods and updating loop indexes to use `size_t` variables to prevent potential integer overflow issues. The user also fixed ROS console output formatting and corrected header guards.
rosmotomanros-industrialurdfmoveit
dambrosio/vcstool
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Vcstool is a command line tool designed to make working with multiple repositories easier
Contributions:20 reviews, 1 branch, 22 comments in 1 month
command-line-toolrepositoriesvcstoolcommand-linecli
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