Tim Perkins
Applied Scientist at RAI Institute
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolTim Perkins is an applied scientist and seasoned robotics software engineer with 11 years of experience turning prototypes into production-grade systems across startups and larger teams in the Boston area. He specializes in C++ development and systems architecture but is fluent in C, Python, Lua, TypeScript, and Bash, with a track record of refactoring, hardening, and greenfield design for robotics stacks (ROS/ROS2), motion planning, localization, and core libraries. Tim has led teams and projects that produced foundational autonomy libraries, GPU-accelerated components, and next-generation robot architectures, while also improving developer workflows through tooling, documentation, and containerization. He thrives on cross-functional collaboration with mechanical, electrical, product, and QA teams and has repeatedly shipped user-facing tools like GUIs, CLIs, and REST APIs to make complex robotics tech accessible. An early engineering hire in multiple startups, he combines low-level embedded experience (real-time C on NVIDIA hardware) with higher-level system design and behavioral frameworks. Beyond code, Tim’s not-obvious strength is translating messy research prototypes into well-documented, maintainable products that scale across teams.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's of Science, Computer Engineering (Robotics), Master's of Science, Computer Engineering (Robotics) at Lehigh University
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Github Skills (120)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
tprk77/lcm
May 2016 - Apr 2023
Lightweight Communications and Marshalling
Contributions:46 pushes, 23 branches in 7 years
communicationsmarshalling
tprk77/ergodox_ez
Jun 2018 - Oct 2023
Contributions:13 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 4 months
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