William Baker
Senior Software Manager - Autonomy at sourcerus.dev
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Baker is a Senior Software Manager specializing in autonomy and robotics with 11 years of cross-domain experience in hardware, software, communications, and team leadership. He has led autonomy and manipulation teams at Agility Robotics and delivered industrial and off-road autonomous systems at X and Polymath Robotics, combining hands-on driver and simulation development with systems integration. His background includes NASA Robonaut2 leadership and underwater bimanual manipulation work, reflecting deep expertise in perception, HIL testing, and supervised autonomy for complex robots. Based in Austin, he also consults on robotics through sourcerus.dev, bridging startup agility with moonshot-scale engineering. Notably, he pairs electrical engineering roots and vehicle HMI/prototyping experience with a track record of taking novel robotic capabilities from lab prototypes into deployed systems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Electrical Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Electrical Engineering at University of Vermont
Github Skills (90)
ros10
moveit10
lidar10
3d-mapping10
motion-planning10
slam10
robotics9
simulation9
ros-control9
robot9
robotics-simulation9
driver9
odometry9
blender9
camera8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
willcbaker/rosdistro
May 2017 - Aug 2022
This repo maintains a lists of repositories for each ROS distribution
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 4 months
repositoriesros2for-eachlistsros
NASA-rdt/ros_cyton_gamma
Jul 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:23 commits in 1 month
ros-packageros2rosgammaarms
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