Michael Wiznitzer
Evanston, Illinois, United States
Summary
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SeniorMichael Wiznitzer is a Sr Robotics Software Engineer with 8 years of hands-on experience designing autonomy, motion planning, and SLAM systems across industrial, underwater, and off-road robots. With an MS in Robotics from Northwestern, he has built end-to-end robotic capabilities—from a line-following platform to autonomous exploration on a Clearpath Jackal—and led autonomy efforts for a federally funded underwater mine neutralization program. He has a strong ROS/ROS2 pedigree, contributing forks and fixes to MoveIt2, MTC, and ros2_controllers, and introduced the first ROS2 motion-planning pipeline at Sarcos. At startups he combined systems engineering and product focus, e.g., managing a team to add interactive SLAM tooling and safety LiDAR integration for warehouse robots. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he’s delivered reusable motion-planning libraries adopted across multiple projects and improved operator workflows by unifying ROV and manipulator control. Based in Evanston, IL, he balances mechanical engineering roots with deep software and autonomy expertise, often bridging gaps between research, open-source, and production deployments.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (28)
moveit10
multistage10
ros10
robotics9
motion-planning9
ros-driver8
lidar8
navigationstack8
hierarchical8
pcl7
fsm-library7
rviz7
point-cloud7
automata6
inverse-kinematics6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mechwiz/moveit2
Feb 2022 - Sep 2023
:robot: MoveIt for ROS 2.0, Beta
Contributions:4 reviews, 2 PRs, 100 pushes in 1 year 6 months
moveitros
mechwiz/moveit_task_constructor
May 2022 - Nov 2023
A hierarchical, multi-stage manipulation planner and state machine with user interfaces
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 42 pushes in 1 year 6 months
manipulationstagestate-machinesfsm-libraryfsm
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