Duncan Calvert
Senior Robotics Software Engineer - Agentic Coding And Software Infrastructure at Persona AI
Pensacola, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDuncan Calvert is a PhD candidate and research associate with 11 years of hands-on experience building fast behaviors and tooling for humanoid robots, currently working at IHMC and the University of West Florida. He contributed to the DARPA Robotics Challenge effort (helping secure a 2nd place $1M award) and has worked directly on simulation, test automation, and UIs for Atlas and Valkyrie platforms. His background spans systems and firmware engineering, robotics productization, and cost-conscious web/cloud solutions for small businesses, demonstrating an ability to move projects from prototype to revenue. Comfortable in Agile teams and Java ecosystems, he combines first-principles problem solving with practical engineering to make humanoid robots useful outside the lab. He’s based in Pensacola, Florida, and is notable for translating research-grade robotics software into deployable systems and automation frameworks.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of West FloridaDiploma, Diploma at Pace High School
Github Skills (200)
windows10
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mechanics10
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cpp10
ros10
robotics10
jar10
linux10
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groovy10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
eterpega/ihmc-open-robotics-software
Jan 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:105 commits in 1 year 1 month
ihmcrobotics/mecano
Nov 2018 - Oct 2022
Rigid-body dynamics algorithms
Contributions:3 reviews, 76 commits, 1 PR in 3 years 11 months
dynamicsmechanicsnewtonian-mechanicsfeatherstonerigid-body-dynamics
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